Disease

Malaria - Ghana

Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, which approximates about 3000 children every day worldwide. Nearly 500,000 African children under the age of five die from this disease annually. In Ghana, there were 5.7 million confirmed malaria cases in 2021, out of which 275 people died, according to the Ghana Ministry of Health.

Syphilis - Brazil

From 1 January 2022 to June 2022, 79,500 cases of acquired syphilis, 31,000 records of syphilis in pregnant women and 12,000 cases of congenital syphilis had already been found in the country, totaling more than 122,000 new cases of the disease.