Uganda, Nov. 30 -- The State Minister for Health in-charge of Primary Health Care, Ms Margaret Muhanga, has stressed the need for government, development partners and the community to accord malaria prevention the same urgency and attention given to pandemics such as Ebola and Covid-19, saying the former kills more people than any other disease.

"We must do something about it. Malaria kills more people than any other disease. Even during the Covid-19 outbreak, malaria was killing more people than Covid but because we have made malaria a "normal abnormal", no one cares, but when someone catches Ebola or Covid, everyone acts because they feel threatened," Ms Muhanga said.

Addressing participants at a malaria conference organised by the Mi...