by Karamo Nimaga

Created on: January 19, 2009

The African Media Malaria Research Network [AMMREN] decleared 25th April 2008 as World Malaria Day. AMMREN is a non-profit Health Journalist Organization dedicated to conducting advanced research by every possible means in order to end the malaria pandemic in Africa.The organization has brought journalists, exraordinary individuals, scientists and researchers together in an attempt to find a cure for the deadly disease. The organization has honoured former presidents in the continent for their struggles during their time in office to fight the deadly disease. The former president of the Gambia Alahagi Sir Dawda Jawara was the organization's 2008 Gambia national patron.

According to the World Health Organization [WHO], Malaria has killed more people in Sub-Saharan Africa than any other disease. As we move into the first decade of the new millennium efforts are underway to end the century old medical struggle to find medicine to cure the deadly disease which has depopulated the world's tropical inhabitants especially those of Sub-Saharan Africa, or to wipe out the deadly disease entirely. Malaria still remains one of the world's most forceful killer disease.

April 25th 2008 was decleared World Malaria in an attempt to bring awareness of the deadly disease to countries, which have ,so far , been free of it.World Malaria Day has helped countries that are free of the disease to learn about its symptoms and why it has been able to kill more people in Sub-Saharan Africa than almost all of the wars fought in that region combined. Despite all the efforts and research that has been carried out for decades malaria continues to be a threat to the public health.

According to the official tally of the W.H.O, malaria affects well over 100 countries worldwide and continues to infect 300 to 500 million people a year,causing nearly one million deaths.The World Health Organization also confirms that people most affected by malaria often live in the informal sector and are marginalized by society and existed in abject poverty with little or very few sources of income.The World Health Organization in its official reports also confirmed that pregenant women and children living in the informal sector are most vunerable to the disease.The Malaria Research Network's invitation of former presidents are based on the fact that many of them were in fact very concerned in the fight against the deadely disease during their time in office.

Malaria is known by scientist to have the capacity to kill mostly women, children and the disabled in countries where the deadely disease continues to shorthen the life of millions. As the struggle to find a cure for malaria contiues, cleaning the breeding places and distributing malaria drugs where mosquitoes the insects carring the malaria virus and large amount of DDT spray are going on . Pharamaceutical companies are also supplying drugs that are capable of killing the malaria virus. But the typical scenario here is how long will people living in tropics wait to be free of the virus and the disease altogether. So much time has been spent and very little has been acheived. Now if new organizations and efforts are made, a cure for this deadly disease could be acheived and we in the tropics will enjoy our liffe and be free of the disease that continued to kill every day. Africa or the people in the tropics alone can't do it. It requires the effort of all the countries around the world. Until then SO LONG

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