{"id":273513,"date":"2019-04-19T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEBFkrhaCpoIp35Xf91Qy3t8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMJ-42gU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:23:34","slug":"climate-information-to-help-combat-malaria-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273513","title":{"rendered":"Climate information to help combat malaria in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CDKN feature on ReliefWeb described how Ethiopia\u2019s <strong>ENACTS<\/strong> climate-information system helped health workers target malaria control by mapping districts most exposed to mosquito-friendly weather.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466292\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ethiopia-Witnesses-its-Highest-Malaria-Surge-in-Seven-Years.jpg?fit=780%2C366&ssl=1\" alt=\"Climate information to help combat malaria in Ethiopia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s plateau-to-lowland extremes mean malaria risk shifts with rains and temperature. Making climate data usable for district clinics was about timing nets, sprays, and alerts, not abstract climate talk.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 million people lived in risk zones, with millions of cases yearly tied to seasonal transmission after rains. Tools that cut that burden are governance infrastructure as much as science.<\/p>\n<p>As health reference, the ENACTS story still matters when malaria surges return. Climate services that reach woreda health desks beat glossy strategies that never leave Addis Ababa conference rooms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/feature-climate-information-help-combat-malaria-ethiopia\">ReliefWeb<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cdkn.org\/\">CDKN<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEATURE: Climate information to help combat malaria in Ethiopia &#8211; Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebAn initiative called ENACTS has made climate information easier for Ethiopian health professionals to access and use. This has helped them to pinpoint which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ethiopia-Witnesses-its-Highest-Malaria-Surge-in-Seven-Years.jpg?fit=1170%2C550&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-199v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600857,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273513\/revisions\/600857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}