Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we still haven't gotten rid of malaria

We've known how to cure malaria since the 1600s, so why does the disease still kill hundreds of thousands every year? It's more than just a problem of medicine, says journalist Sonia Shah. A look into the history of malaria reveals three big-picture challenges to eradicating it. Photos: Adam Nadel

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[loveyaback]

the face mask question is so funny in todays context lol

[jwh]

4 Reasons

2:37 scientific
4:53 economic
6:44 cultural
9:12 political

12:03 example of face mask

[FIERCENATION]

I appreciate that she highlighted the importance of cultural sensitivity in public health efforts. 

[MadisonHill-Glover]

When she asked if the audience thought those in the temperate world (ex. the United States) would voluntarily use face masks during cold and flu season...The answer in 2021: No.

[rrdrnd]

This is absolutely a great presentation!! Very very interesting and clear! Thank you very much for sharing!

[tanyasawhney]

If she knew back then that we would actually end up wearing face masks!

[glynlewis]

I live in Zambia and received my free bed nets. They were too short and impossible to fit on the bed. Wonderful talk though.

[msdimples]

Excellent presentation. Very eloquent speaker.

[SCR_]

Brilliant talk, I am currently doing my dissertation on malaria and found this topic to be very interesting and quite sobering. I shall be looking out for Sonia's book.

[bornhere]

Great talk! I highly recommend her book.

[mansoorsiddiqui]

Applause for the efforts the speaker has taken to study the problem from biological cultural and socio-economic perspectives.
A point however is that malaria could be eradicated from european countries because of economic development and progressive urbanisation which made conditions unconducive for parasite survival. But Speaker has failed to notice that tropical climate differs drastically from european zone and that malaria has a much higher prevalence in the sub saharan africa since ages to an extent that malaria parasite has shaped evolution of human red blood cell properties and much more (sickle cell anaemia is naturally selected because it confers survival advantage in areas which are hyper-endemic for malaria).

Moreover as she said that there is a strong correlation between malaria and poverty and economic development can not happen as long as malaria affects people how could then we only focus on economic empowerment without making an effort to eradicate or attenuate malaria endemic.

Mansoor Siddiqui
Malaria Biologist (PhD graduate student)

[iams]

Excelent talk. She gets right to the point: the economic issue. (And an economic issue is a political issue at the end)

[dimosthenischatziioannou]

Όσοι είναι εδώ από Βιολογία δευτέρας γυμνασίου να κάνουν like

[SAsgarters]

I appreciate the civility of that post.

[aimusicbymaddy]

rightly perceived situation by the speaker!

[dvolucion]

como me encantaría tener este documental en español. por favor si alguien lo tiene me lo hace saber. gracias

[kodjodzumedo]

Great presentation!
Great solution must be great.
More detail in how american get rid of malaria if you knew can help us too.
Please let me know if you know

[josheridan]

Fantastic talk,
I think there may be a typo in the description, which claims the disease kills hundreds of thousands every day. This would mean, at a bare minimum 73 million deaths from malaria each year. The highest estimates of deaths per year that I could find in my brief, amateur google search is 1.2 million. I really hope this is a typographic error and not some horrendous increase in malaria deaths.

[KaMiQa]

i would love to know it too. What would happened if there is were no mosquitoes and what lack of mosquitoes would affect

[shininglamb]

At the end, it is all about spreading the education and helping others.