These figures are conservative, in that they are the cases and deaths that the Ministry of Health knows about. Malaria sufferers in remote areas who were unable to reach a health post will not be in these statistics.
The latest bulletin from the Ministry, published on Monday, and covering the week 8-14 April, says that in that period alone 118,057 cases of malaria were recorded, resulting in 71 deaths.
The real figures are certainly larger, since two provinces (Manica and Cabo Delgado) had not yet sent their figures for that week to the Ministry.
The province worst affected by malaria that week was Gaza was with 31,707 cases and 18 deaths, followed by Nampula with 31,665 cases and 17 deaths.
These figures show no decline in malaria cases from 2006, when 6.3 million cases were diagnosed and 5,156 people died from the disease.
Malaria is endemic throughout the country. It is responsible for 40 per cent of all consultations in Mozambican health units.
60 per cent of the children in Mozambican paediatric wards are admitted because of severe bouts of malaria.
Malaria remains the largest single cause of mortality in Mozambican hospitals, where it is responsible for 30 per cent of all recorded deaths.
SOURCE: AIM
