Opening exhibition “The labyrinth of Malaria” at Plaza Trascorrales
the inauguration in Asturias of the maze of Malaria ” will take place today Monday, October 24, at 12: 00 h., in the Plaza of Trascorrales (Oviedo). Patricia González del Valle GarcÃa (Director of the Asturian agency development cooperation), will be present at the ceremony Silvia Junco (Councillor delegate for cooperation to the development of the City Council in Oviedo), Carlos medium (Spain of the campaign coordinator stop malaria already ”) and Luis Casado (President of medicusmundi Asturias).
Oviedo, 2011-October the campaign stop malaria already ”, in which medicusmundi participates actively, has organised a tour by different European cities to raise awareness about the devastating consequences of malaria for the development of the countries of the South, and claim political commitmentECOSOC are needed to eradicate this evil endemic to just the lives of nearly a million people each year.
The maze of malaria ” has already come Germany, Poland and Italy and now reaches our country to visit Zaragoza, Oviedo and Vitoria. Visitors must traverse a maze where simulates a mosquito anopheles, transmitting the disease, being persecuted. But what you can do to prevent its bite? There medication to help improve symptoms that causes the disease? The labyrinth has various proposals to participate actively in the fight against malaria.
Stop malaria already ” is an initiative of medicusmundi and other 9 NGO in Africa, Europe and United States that works to raise social awareness about malaria as one of the major diseases linked to poverty and a major cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is preventable and curable, its complete and comprehensive control is at our fingertips, and can be treated with medication and proper access. If it fails to curb the prevalence of malaria, the mortality rate can be increased in the coming years, putting in obvious risk one of the goals of the objective 6 goals for the Millennium Development (MDGs): have halted and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases by the year 2015, ”.
The exhibition the maze of malaria ” can be visited from 24 to 30 October in the Trascorrales Plaza, Oviedo, discovering who visit various aspects of the disease through sounds, videos, installations and panels that offer more information about the origin of malaria, areas affected, measures of protection and how to stop the spread of the disease.
