Eradication Of Malaria

Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)
7th April 1962
Malaria Eradication



designed W. Eichel

One of the best sets issued in 1962 to publicize the anti malaria campaign was issued by Tunisia on April 7, 1962. The set contains three stamps designed by Tunisian artists and engraved by French engravers:

Anopheles mosquito trapped in a net, designed by Tijani Ellouze, engraved by Jean Miermont:

Tunisian horseman fighting Anopheles mosquito, designed by Abdelaziz Gorgi, engraved by Pierre Béquet:

Hands fighting Anopheles mosquito, designed by Hatem El Mekki, engraved by André Frères:

Malaria eradication, issued by Solomon Islands on July 27, 1977:

Eradication of Malaria campaign, a set of nine stamps issued by Dubai on December 20, 1963:

The set has three different designs, I scanned a stamp from each one:

Honoring military services, designed and engraved by Raoul Serres and issued for use in Algeria on January 4, 1953:

François Clément Maillot (1804 - 1894), a French military doctor served in Algeria, where malaria decimated the soldiers. He developed the treatment of malaria by using quinine sulfate.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845 – 1922), a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis.

Morocco issued on September 3, 1962 a set of two engraved stamps to publicize the anti Malaria campaign:

Eradication of Malaria campaign, issued by DDR (GDR) on February 6, 1963:

UN anti Malaria campaign, issued by Nigeria on April 7, 1962:

First stamp shows Anopheles mosquito's larva and pupa, juvenile forms before metamorphosis into the adult life stage (see diagram of Anopheles life cycle below)




Life cycle of Anopheles. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/abou...opheles.html

To publicize the anti Malaria campaign, Israel issued on April 30, 1962 a single stamp with a unique design: a curve shows the decrease in Malaria cases in Israel. The tip of the curve kills the Anopheles mosquito:

Panama set of anti-malaria stamps.



These were issued as air mail semipostal stamps.

UN anti Malaria campaign, stamps from Ethiopia, Monaco, Yugoslavia and Ryukyus Islands, all issued in 1962:

UN anti Malaria campaign, a set of 9 stamps and 2 SS's with 4 different designs, issued by Paraguay on May 23, 1962:





stamps and SS were issued as perforated and imperforated:

UN anti Malaria campaign, issued by Venezuela on December 20, 1962. The campaign logo is embossed:

UN anti Malaria campaign, issued by Pakistan on April 7, 1962:

Anti Malaria campaign, designed by designed by Jaroslav Svab, engraved by Jan Mracek and issued by Czechoslovakia on September 30, 1962: