Title WORLD MALARIA DAY
Date-wise Events April 25, Every Year
Description
  • To recognize global efforts to control malaria
  • To provide "education and understanding of malaria" and spread information on "year-long intensified implementation of national malaria-control strategies, including community-based activities for malaria prevention and treatment in endemic areas".
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  • Globally, 3.3 billion people in 106 countries are at risk of malaria.
  •  In 2009, 781 000 people died from malaria, mainly women and children in Africa.
  •  This Day was established by World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization.
  •  Malaria is preventable and curable.
  • Significant progress has been made since 2000 thanks to increased global investment and action.
  • Malaria was found on every continent and in almost every country in the world at the end of World War II.
  • Thanks to major investment, particularly in the last two decades, more than 90 countries are virtually malaria-free today.
  • Defeating malaria requires a three-fold approach described in the Global Malaria Action Plan:
    1. Control: controlling malaria in high burden countries to reduce death and disease;
    2. Elimination: eliminating malaria from low-burden countries on the geographic periphery of the disease to "shrink the malaria map;" and
    3. Research: investing in research and development in new tools to help us advance the fight, and stay one step ahead of emerging resistance to current drugs and insecticides.
  • Africa is the most affected continent with 90% of all malaria deaths.
  • Malaria resurgence will remain a persistent threat until the disease is stopped altogether.
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