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Common diseases in Africa may kill more people than COVID-19 if not treated: WHO

Geneva, Switzerland, May 27 (UNI) The World Health Organisation(WHO) has warned that the treatment of commonly occurring diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis in Africa should not be neglected due to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic or else the progress of the past several years may be reversed.
Sputnik quoted WHO Africa Program Manager for Emergency Response Michel Yao saying that malaria, HIV and tuberculosis could end up killing more people compared to the Coronavirus.
"We can have a situation where malaria will kill more than COVID-19, for example, if we stop intervention. It is also the same for HIV treatment and tuberculosis treatment. These are the diseases that are ongoing and we can see reverse of some of the gain from vaccination: measles outbreaks popping up and the gains against poliomyelitis [overturned]," Yao said.
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