Abstract
World Malaria Day is commemorated globally every year on 25 April with the overarching goal of mobilizing all efforts to corner malaria with the aim of eliminating it by 2030. In this context, Frontiers has launched an initiative to coincide with the theme, “Ending malaria transmission: reaching the last mile to zero malaria” and compiled five articles advocating for investment, innovation, and the implementation of newer interventions to defeat malaria.
Driven by the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Technical Strategy (GTS) for malaria 2016–2030 (1), as many as 43 countries have been certified malaria-free, while several others have achieved marked reductions in morbidity and mortality paving the way for malaria elimination. In the midst of this success story, the WHO reported an estimated 249 million malaria cases in 2022 (an increase of 5 million cases from the preceding year) and 608,000 deaths (2). However, the majority of these cases (94%) and deaths (95%) occurred in the WHO African Region followed by the WHO South-East Asia Region with 2% of cases and 1.31% of deaths respectively. Nearly half of the cases in 2022 were reported by just four countries: Nigeria (27%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (12%), Uganda (5%) and Mozambique (4%). Of these, 11 countries classified as “high burden to high impact (HBHI)” contributed 67% of estimated cases and 73% of deaths.
Driven by the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Technical Strategy (GTS) for malaria 2016–2030 (1), as many as 43 countries have been certified malaria-free, while several others have achieved marked reductions in morbidity and mortality paving the way for malaria elimination. In the midst of this success story, the WHO reported an estimated 249 million malaria cases in 2022 (an increase of 5 million cases from the preceding year) and 608,000 deaths (2). However, the majority of these cases (94%) and deaths (95%) occurred in the WHO African Region followed by the WHO South-East Asia Region with 2% of cases and 1.31% of deaths respectively. Nearly half of the cases in 2022 were reported by just four countries: Nigeria (27%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (12%), Uganda (5%) and Mozambique (4%). Of these, 11 countries classified as “high burden to high impact (HBHI)” contributed 67% of estimated cases and 73% of deaths.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 1433213 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-3 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Public Health |
| Volume | 12 |
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| Publication status | Published - 10 Jun 2024 |
