Gender barriers that hold back anti-malaria efforts
Msekwa Primary School teacher Tindichebwa Kamali in Ukerewe District, Mwanza Region distributes free mosquito nets to Standard One pupils during a campaign against malaria. The 2017 Tanzania Malaria Indicator Survey shows that more than 93 per cent of Tanzania’s population remains at risk of malaria but in recent years the prevalence rate of the disease dropped from 14.4 per cent in 2015 to 7.3 per cent in 2017. PHOTO | FILE
Anti-malaria campaigners and researchers say there is a pressing need to invest more in research on how to curb gender barriers that are holding back the efforts to eliminate malaria in Tanzania.
