HSC09401 / HSC09101 / NUR09716 Healthy Lives (HSCo9401)

According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO), 2019 periodic global malaria report, there were 229 million cases of malaria and 409,000 fatalities in 87 countries with malaria. Since 2000, there have been a total of 9 million fewer cases (Programme, 2015). According to the most current WHO statistics, there were 824 malaria-related deaths in Sierra Leone in 2020, or 11.25% of all fatalities. With a death rate of 61.60 per 100,000 people, Sierra Leone has the highest age-adjusted mortal...

Pregnant women are the most at risk for malaria infection. An estimated 11 million out of 38 million (29%) pregnancies in sub-Saharan Africa, where moderate to high malaria transmission happens, were exposed to the disease in 2018 ("World Malaria Report 2022," n.d.). P. falciparum infection during pregnancy, though frequently silent, is linked to undesirable pregnancy outcomes like stillbirth, low birth weight (LBW), preterm delivery, abortion, and maternal anemia.