Foreword
Each year, the World Health Organization and our partners unite around a common theme for World Malaria Day. This year’s theme – “End Malaria for Good” – reflects the vision of a world free of malaria set out in the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030.
This strategy, adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2015, was the result of an extensive consultative process involving 400 malaria experts from more than 70 countries. It sets ambitious but attainable goals aimed at dramatically lowering the global malaria burden in the next 15 years. They include:
- REDUCING MALARIA CASE INCIDENCE BY AT LEAST 90%
- REDUCING MALARIA MORTALITY BY AT LEAST 90%
- ELIMINATING MALARIA IN AT LEAST 35 COUNTRIES
- PREVENTING THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF MALARIA IN ALL COUNTRIES THAT ARE MALARIA-FREE
This report, presented on World Malaria Day 2016, focuses on the third goal: malaria elimination. It offers a brief analysis of recent country-level progress towards elimination and spotlights countries that are poised to reach the finish line in the next five years.
A number of countries have had remarkable success in controlling malaria, and these achievements are hard-won. But in many respects, the hardest work is yet to come. Our report highlights the considerable challenges countries will face in their efforts to drive down malaria cases to zero and to prevent resurgences of this deadly disease.
Dr Pedro Alonso Director, Global Malaria Programme World Health Organization
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