The RBM Partnership to End Malaria, which coordinates global efforts to fight malaria, launched its new strategic plan for 2021-2025 in January 2021. This strategic plan considers the progress made in the last two decades and challenges faced in the fight against malaria, including inadequate funding, emerging drug and insecticide resistance, increasing population movement and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. In the light…
GFO: What progress have we made with the global response to malaria? RG, BR: According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2020 report on malaria, global malaria mortality fell by 60 percent over the 2000–2019 period. The Africa region has seen a decrease in the annual number of malaria deaths from 680 000 in 2000 to 384 000 in 2019. Southeast Asian countries…
On 25 April, countries and communities marked the annual World Malaria Day, to highlight the global efforts to control malaria and celebrate the gains in the fight against this disease. The theme for the day was ‘zero malaria starts with me,’ which calls for individual commitment to fight the disease. Over the last two decades, coordinated efforts all over the…
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