Climate change increasing risk of childhood malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, reveals study

Climate change set to add SA to Africa’s Malaria map

A new Nature study finds climate change will redraw Africa's malaria map by 2050, with cases potentially rising by up to 20% in coastal southern Africa. Warming temperatures are set to push malaria-carrying mosquitoes into cooler regions, including South Africa's three northeastern provinces, says University of Cape Town co-author Christopher Trisos, who warns local health systems must prepare now. Cases could fall in the hottest parts of West A…

Climate change set to redraw Africa’s malaria map, study finds

Malaria killed an estimated 579,000 people in Africa in 2024, about three-quarters of them children under five. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Climate change increasing risk of childhood malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, reveals study

The southern and East African regions expected to be hit the hardest in the future are also regions that aren’t accustomed to needing to fight the disease today

Climate change is redrawing the malaria map in Africa

Malaria is the deadliest climate-sensitive infectious disease. Yet, researchers and public health officials have debated how climate change has shaped its spread. A new Nature study by an international team, including the University of Cape Town (UCT), resolved this debate, providing the most comprehensive assessment to date. The study quantified climate change’s historical and future impacts on children in sub-Saharan Africa, where most cases a…