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Through the years, a variety of measures have been taken to break the cycle of infection and death by malaria. A number of preventive measures can be taken to prevent malaria. Providing the disease is diagnosed on time, people infected with malaria can take drugs that actually cure them.

This is how large parts of Asia, the United States and Europe have either got malaria under control or eradicated it. In Africa, however, the number of people who have become infected with malaria has increased over the last 30 years. One of the reasons for this is the increasing resistance of the parasite to the drugs and of the mosquito to insecticides.

Experts agree that a comprehensive approach is needed to create a malaria-free environment. Such an approach integrates prevention and treatment in a basic health-care system that is made available by Africans to all Africans together with the necessary education. Were everyone in Africa given access to the basic health care provided by their country, the vicious circle of poverty and disease could be broken. This would enable African population groups to work on the development and future of their health.

Achieving this requires close collaboration with local leaders, communities, organizations and government institutions and the respect of local conditions and customs. Educating and training men, women and children as well as local health workers is an important prerequisite to guaranteeing the long-term success of the prevention and treatment of malaria. Only then can the local community raise awareness and change its behaviour.

After several meetings with the expert group and the allocation committee, Malaria No More! Netherlands has chosen to fund the malaria interventions that meet these criteria.

The WHO World Malaria Report 2010 also shows that a comprehensive approach works. Because so many more people know about malaria and its effects and have access to preventive measures and the right drugs, both the number of cases of malaria and the number of deaths have fallen dramatically.