NewzVille Health Desk
Some Statistics on Malaria is really threatening:
# 597 000 malaria deaths in 2023
# 263 million new cases of malaria in 2023
# 95% of all malaria cases are in WHO African Region
Today is World Malaria Day. On World Malaria Day, World Health Organization (WHO) joins the Result Based Management (RBM) Partnership to End Malaria and other partners in promoting “Malaria Ends With Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite”, a grassroots campaign that aims to re-energize efforts at all levels, from global policy to community action, to accelerate progress towards malaria elimination.
The global community recommitted to malaria in the late 1990s and, as a result, an estimated 2.2 billion cases and 12.7 million deaths have been prevented over more than two decades. But after years of steady declines, progress has stalled.
Today, malaria claims an estimated 1 life every minute, with most deaths occurring in the WHO African Region.
Further progress and decades of hard-won gains are in jeopardy. Extreme weather events, conflict, humanitarian emergencies, and economic stresses are disrupting malaria control efforts in many endemic countries, leaving tens of millions of people with limited access to the services they need to prevent, detect and treat the disease. Without prompt treatment, malaria can rapidly escalate to severe illness and death.
It’s time to recommit to ending malaria. In the era of knowledge, life-saving tools and targeted prevention, testing and treatment methods we can defeat this disease. We must reinvest in proven interventions, reimagine our strategies to overcome current obstacles, and reignite our collective efforts together with countries and communities to accelerate progress towards ending malaria.
Ending malaria is not just a health imperative; it is an investment in a more equitable, safer and prosperous future for every nation.
On World Malaria Day, WHO appeals: let’s Reinvest, Reimagine, and Reignite so that Malaria Ends with Us.
