World Malaria Day is observed annually on April 25th to raise awareness of efforts to control and eliminate malaria. The theme for 2019 is "Zero malaria starts with me" which aims to keep malaria high on the political agenda and empower communities to take ownership of prevention and care. While progress has been made in reducing malaria cases and deaths globally, sustained efforts are still needed to achieve zero malaria. India has seen significant declines in malaria cases and deaths in recent years but it remains one of the highest burden countries.

1. WORLD MALARIA DAY
BY
Dr. KRITI SINGH
G.S.V.M.Medical College, Kanpur

2. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Global Scenario
• Previous Theme
• Theme 2019
• Who is at risk
• Roll Back Partnership
• Indian Scenario
• History of Malaria in India
• Vaccines against Malaria
• Global Technical Strategic Plan 2016-2030
Total no of slides: 18

3. Introduction
• World Malaria Day (WMD), annual observance held on April 25 to
raise awareness of the global effort to control and
ultimately eradicate malaria.
• In 2007, at the 60th session of World Health Assembly, the Africa
Malaria Day was changed to World Malaria Day.
• WMD is one of eight official global public health ,campaigns currently
marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World
Health Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Immunization
Week, World Tuberculosis Day, World No Tobacco Day, World
Hepatitis Day and World AIDS Day.

4. Global scenario
• The World Malaria Report 2018 estimates that there were 219 million
cases and 435 000 deaths in 2017 globally.
• Nearly half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria.
• In 2017, nearly 70% of all malaria cases and deaths concentrated in
11 countries: 10 in Africa and India.
• Children aged under 5 years are most vulnerable group and
accounted for 61% of all malaria deaths worldwide.

5. Who is at risk?
• In 2017, 87 countries and areas had ongoing malaria transmission.
• These include infants, children under 5 years of age, pregnant
women and patients with HIV/AIDS, as well as non-immune migrants,
mobile populations and travellers.

7. • The WHO African Region continues to account for approximately 90%
of malaria cases and deaths worldwide.
• In the 10 African countries hardest hit by malaria (Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Mali,
Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda and United Republic of
Tanzania), there were an estimated 3.5 million more cases of malaria
in 2017 over the previous year.

8. PREVIOUS THEMES
2008: MALARIA: A DISEASE WITHOUT BORDERS
2009-2010: COUNTING MALARIA OUT
2011: ACHIEVING PROGRESS AND IMPACT
2012: SUSTAIN GAINS, SAVE LIVES: INVEST IN MALARIA
2013-2014-2015: INVEST IN THE FUTURE: DEFEAT MALARIA
2016-2017: END MALARIA FOR GOOD
2018: READY TO BEAT MALARIA
WORLD MALARIA DAY 2019: Zero malaria starts with me

9. THEME 2019
• “Zero malaria starts with me”
• According to WHO’s latest World malaria report, no significant gains were made
in reducing malaria cases in the period 2015 to 2017.
• The estimated number of malaria deaths in 2017, at 435 000, remained virtually
unchanged over the previous year.
• The “Zero malaria” campaign – first launched in Senegal in 2014 – was officially
endorsed at the African Union Summit by all African Heads of State in July 2018.
• On World Malaria Day 2019, WHO joins the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, the
African Union Commission and other partner organizations in promoting “Zero
malaria starts with me” a grassroots campaign that aims to keep malaria high on
the political agenda, mobilize additional resources, and empower communities to
take ownership of malaria prevention and care.
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10. Roll Back Malaria Partnership:
• The RBM Partnership To End Malaria (formerly Roll Back Malaria
Partnership) is the largest global platform for coordinated action
towards a world free from malaria.
• The partnership includes organizations from malaria endemic
countries, bilateral and multilateral development partners,
organizations from the private sector, nongovernmental and
community-based organizations, foundations, research and academic
institutions.
• Since its inception in 1998, the RBM Partnership has reduced malaria
deaths by over 60% and saved 7 million lives.

11. • According to Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for
South-East Asia,
• “As the theme of this year’s World Malaria Day – ‘zero malaria starts
with me’ – underscores, to sustain our gains, accelerate progress and
make full use of emerging innovations, we must ensure malaria
remains a core political issue.
• Doing so is particularly important to overcome present funding gaps
and mobilize additional resources to drive life-changing progress.”

12. Indian Scenario
• India has the fourth highest malaria burden in the world.
• The World Malaria Report 2018 has documented the remarkable
decline in malaria cases and deaths in India.
• As per the report, 24% reduction in cases of malaria was recorded in
2017 compared to 2016.
• In 2018, there has been a 52% decline in cases compared to 2017.
• High endemic states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya
Pradesh and Meghalaya, which accounted for nearly 77% cases of
malaria, have shown a sharp decline.

13. Vaccines against malaria
• RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) is the first and the only vaccine to show partial
protection against malaria in young children.
• It acts against P. falciparum, the most deadly malaria parasite globally also
the most prevalent in Africa.
• In large-scale clinical trials, the vaccine prevented approximately 4 in 10
cases of malaria over a 4-year period.(4 doses were given)
• The vaccine will be introduced in 3 pilot countries – Ghana, Kenya and
Malawi – in 2019.

14. Global technical strategy for malaria 2016–
2030
• WHO developed a Global technical strategy for malaria 2016–2030
(GTS) (5), endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2015, which sets
global targets for 2030, with milestones for measuring progress in
2020 and 2025.