The research described by the World Agroforesty Center (ICRAF) Research released in anticipation of World Malaria Day (25 April). East Africa with promising anti-malarial qualities ones that have treated malaria symptoms in the region's communities for hunderds if years, are at risk of extinction. The name of this plant is "Quinas" in Brazil. One of the drugs most widely used historically to treat malaria, quinine, was drived from the bark of the "Cinchona tree" in south America. Today, The world's newest most-effective therapeatic treatment for malaria also comes from a plant, the Artemisia annua shrub. However, access to malaria therapies based on artemisinin copounds remain low-around 15 percent in most parts of Africa and well below the World Health Organization 80 percent target.Malaria still kills some 800,000 people per year.The majority of whom are children under fine years of age in sub-Saharan Africa.A lack of access to doctors and drug leaves many communities in Africa with few alternatives other than looking for natural remedies to address symptoms of malaria ,including high fever,severe headaches,bone aches,nausea and vomiting.
Malaria is caused by single-celled protozoan parasites called plasmodium and transmitted to man through the Anopheles mosquito.It is one of the major fatal diseases in the wold. Especially in the tropics,and is endemic in some 102 countries with more than half of the world. Population at risk with fatality rates being extremely high among young children below 5 years age 300 to 500 million new causes each year and this rate of causes increases day by day.
