World Malaria Day 2016, April 25

 

World Malaria Day, April 25.

Día Mundial del Paludismo, 25 de Abril.

Journée mondiale de lutte contre le paludisme, 25 Avril.

Всемирный день борьбы с малярией , 25 апреля .

年世界防治疟疾日, 4月25日.

اليوم العالمي للملاريا, نيسان/ أبريل 25

 

 

 

 

 

Theme 2016 : End malaria for good.

 Tema 2016: «Acabemos con el paludismo para siempre»

 Thème 2016: «en finir définitivement avec le paludisme»,

 тема 2016 : Окончательно покончить с малярией

2016年的主題 : 使疟疾得到永远控制

اليوم العالمي للملاريا : موضوع 2016:

 

 

 Statement by Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General on  the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria (2016-2030). 

 

 

The World Health Organization’s Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 has been developed with the aim of helping countries reduce the human suffering caused by the world’s deadliest mosquito-borne disease.

Adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2015, the strategy provides comprehensive technical guidance to countries and development partners for the next 15 years, emphasizing the importance of scaling up malaria responses and moving towards elimination. It also highlights the urgent need to increase investments across all interventions – including preventive measures, diagnostic testing, treatment and disease surveillance – as well as in harnessing innovation and expanding research.

By adopting this strategy, WHO Member States have endorsed the bold vision of a world free of malaria, and set the ambitious new target of reducing the global malaria burden by 90% by 2030. They also agreed to strengthen health systems, address emerging multi-drug and insecticide resistance, and intensify national, cross-border and regional efforts to scale up malaria responses to protect everyone at risk.

By taking forward this strategy, countries will make a major contribution to implementing the post-2015 sustainable development framework. A major scale-up of malaria responses will not only help countries reach the healthrelated targets for 2030, but will contribute to poverty reduction and other development goals.

In the next 18 months, we will develop and roll out implementation plans in all WHO regions and support countries in updating their national malaria plans. We stand ready to expand our reach and increase our support to all countries irrespective of where they are along the elimination continuum.

Recent progress on malaria has shown us that, with adequate investments and the right mix of strategies, we can indeed make remarkable strides against this complicated enemy. We will need strong political commitment to see this through, and expanded financing.

We should act with resolve, and remain focused on our shared goal: to create a world in which no one dies of malaria. I remain confident that if we act with urgency and determination, we can beat this disease once and for all.

 

 Dr Margaret Chan,

WHO Director-General

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each year, WHO and partners unite around a common World Malaria Day theme. This year’s theme "End malaria for good" reflects the vision of a malaria-free world set out in the "Global technical strategy for malaria 2016-2030". Adopted in May 2015 by the World Health Assembly, the strategy aims to dramatically lower the global malaria burden over the next 15 years. Its goals are ambitious but attainable:

• reducing the rate of new malaria cases by at least 90%
• reducing malaria death rates by at least 90%
• eliminating malaria in at least 35 countries
• preventing a resurgence of malaria in all countries that are malaria-free

The timeline of 2016-2030 is aligned with the "2030 Agenda for sustainable development", the new global development framework endorsed by all UN Member States.
According to WHO’s "World malaria report 2015", there has been a major decline in global malaria cases and deaths since 2000. Progress was made possible through the massive expansion of effective tools to prevent and treat malaria, such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets, diagnostic testing and anti-malarial medicines.

Significant challenges remain however: globally, about 3.2 billion people – nearly half of the world’s population – are at risk of malaria. In 2015, there were an estimated 214 million new cases of malaria and 438,000 deaths, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions of people are still not accessing the services they need to prevent and treat malaria.

The Malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium

 

FORUM : World Malaria Day - 25 April
 

 

World Malaria Day offers an annual opportunity to highlight advances in malaria control and to commit to continued investment and action to accelerate progress against this deadly disease. To achieve the targets of the "Global technical strategy" annual investment for malaria control will need to triple from current levels, reaching US $8.7 billion annually by 2030.

 

Goals, Milestones, Targets - GLOBAL TECHNICAL STRATEGY FOR MALARIA 2016–2030

Principles - GLOBAL TECHNICAL STRATEGY FOR MALARIA 2016–2030

 

 

Strategic Framework - GLOBAL TECHNICAL STRATEGY FOR MALARIA 2016–2030

 

World Malaria Day Twitter Chat

Monday, April 25, 2016, 9:00 am to 11:30 am ET

We are hosting an #EndMalaria Twitter roundtable on World Malaria Day. Please see below for a timeline of topics, retweet to promote our chat to your followers, and ask questions and chime in using #MalariaChat!
9:00 am ET Reaching the hardest to reach
9:30 am ET Malaria in Pregnancy
10:00 am ET Harnessing innovation & expanding research
10:30 am ET The threat of drug resistance
11:00 am ET What impedes or inspires behavior adoption or change?



PHOTOS :
"End Malaria For Good" photo contest winner

EVENTS :
 

2016 World Malaria Day Symposium



A DECADE OF PROGRESS : The President's Malaria Initiative
- Tenth Annual Report to Congress | April 2016

Global Malaria: The International Centers of Excellence Centennial Celebration
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Monday, April 25, 2016

World malaria day april 25th, 2016 in bern - DNDi
REAFFIRMING SWITZERLAND'S LEADERSHIP ROLE TO END MALARIA WORLD MALARIA DAY CEREMONY 25TH OF APRIL 2016, PART I OF II ON THE FEDERAL SQUARE BERN

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATION :

 

 

• Global technical strategy for malaria 2016–2030
• All publications on malaria

MEDIA COVERAGE :
Over the past 15 years, there has been a dramatic decline in the global burden of malaria. Since 2000, nearly 60 countries have reduced their malaria cases by 75% or more, and the rate of new cases has decreased by 37% globally. But our journey is far from over. In 2015 alone, more than 400 000 people died of malaria, and there were 214 million new cases of the disease.

RESOURCES :

• World Malaria Day 2016 - Rollback Malaria
• World Malaria Day 2016 - Malaria Consortium.
• World Malaria Day 2016 - President's Malaria Initiative (PMI)
• WHO to Test Malaria Vaccine in Africa
• WHO’s World Malaria Report 2015
• CDC Malaria Portal
• Peace Corps
• World Malaria Day 2016 - Amref Health Africa.
• Malaria is preventable, treatable and curable. ExxonMobil Foundation
• Protein discovery fuels re-design of mosquito-based malaria vaccine

World Malaria Day 2015, April 25

World Malaria Day, April 25. 

Theme 2015 : Invest in the Future: Defeat Malaria.

World Malaria Day 2015 : call to close gaps in prevention and treatment to defeat malaria

News release
 

23 APRIL 2015 | GENEVA - WHO is calling on the global health community to urgently address significant gaps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria. Despite dramatic declines in malaria cases and deaths since 2000, more than half a million lives are still lost to this preventable disease each year.
At least three quarters of malaria deaths occur in children under 5. Yet in 2013, only about 1 in 5 African children with malaria received effective treatment for the disease, 15 million pregnant women did not receive a single dose of the recommended preventive drugs, and an estimated 278 million people in Africa still live in households without a single insecticide-treated bednet.
“As we celebrate World Malaria Day on April 25, we must recognize the urgent need to expand prevention measures and quality-assured diagnostic testing and treatment to reduce the human suffering caused by malaria,” says Dr Hiroki Nakatani, WHO Assistant Director-General for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Updated treatment guidelines

Updated "Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria" are being issued by WHO this week. They include the latest recommendations on preventive treatment for infants, children under 5 and pregnant women. The updated guidelines should help expand access to recommended treatments.
For uncomplicated malaria cases, WHO recommends the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). Globally, 392 million ACT courses were procured by malaria-endemic countries in 2013, up from just 11 million in 2005. However, millions of people are still not treated for malaria, primarily because the communities most affected by the disease have limited access to health care.
WHO recommends diagnostic testing for all suspected malaria cases to ensure that malaria drugs are used only for those who have the disease and that—when a test is negative—other causes of fever are investigated. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are now widely available and more than 319 million were purchased in 2013 compared to 46 million in 2008. Despite this progress, nearly 40% of people with suspected malaria at public health facilities in Africa are not tested.
WHO also recommends that the most vulnerable groups in malaria-endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa—pregnant women, children under 5, and infants—receive preventive treatment to reduce the risk of malaria infection. Preventive treatments are highly cost-effective, with the potential to save tens of thousands of lives each year. Coverage with such treatments, however, remains low and needs to be significantly scaled up.
The need to urgently address gaps in preventive treatment for malaria is also being highlighted by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, which has issued a global call to action to increase national coverage with preventive treatment in pregnancy.

Accelerating towards elimination—a new WHO strategy

WHO has developed a new global malaria strategy for the 2016-2030 period, which will be reviewed by the World Health Assembly in May 2015. Developed in close consultation with endemic countries and partners, the new strategy sets the target of reducing the disease burden by 40% by 2020, and by at least 90% by 2030. It also aims to eliminate the disease in at least 35 new countries by 2030. The strategy provides a comprehensive framework for countries to develop tailored programmes that will sustain and accelerate progress towards malaria elimination.
Commitments to malaria elimination have already been made by a number of countries and regions. In recent years, elimination efforts have been intensified in many parts of Africa—including in Southern Africa’s “Elimination 8” countries (Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe)—in Central America and Hispaniola, as well as in South-East Asia. In 2014, heads of state at the East Asia Summit made a commitment to eliminate malaria from the Asia-Pacific by 2030 and WHO is currently working on an elimination strategy for the Greater Mekong Subregion.
“We must take the malaria fight to the next level. Moving towards elimination will require high-level political commitment and robust financing, including substantial new investments in disease surveillance, health systems strengthening and research,” says Dr Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme. “In addition, we urgently need new tools to tackle emerging drug and insecticide resistance, as well as innovative approaches that will accelerate progress.”
Increased political commitment and greater funding have averted more than 4 million malaria deaths since 2001, and 55 of the 97 countries and territories with ongoing malaria transmission are on track to meet the current World Health Assembly target of reducing malaria incidence by 75% between 2000 and 2015.

Note to editors

World Malaria Day was instituted by WHO Member States during the 2007 World Health Assembly and is celebrated on 25 April each year. It is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria control and elimination. The theme for the 2013-2015 campaign is “Invest in the Future. Defeat malaria”.
Roll Back Malaria (RBM) is a global partnership of national governments, civil society, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, professional associations, UN and development agencies, development banks, the private sector and the media.

Media contact:
Christian Lindmeier
Communications Officer
Mobile: +41 79 500 65 52
Telephone: +41 22 791 19 48
E-mail: lindmeierch@who.int

Alison Clements-Hunt
Communication Officer
Mobile: +41 79 386 3943
Telephone: +41 22 791 1995
E-mail: clementshuntal@who.int

 

Share the Facts

Working together with national governments and other donors, PMI has reached millions of people with life-saving prevention and treatment measures through a variety of approaches at hospitals, health facilities, and communities. Seventeen PMI focus countries have now reported declines in deaths among children under the age of five. These declines range from 18 percent (in both Liberia and Nigeria) to 55 percent (in both Senegal and Zambia). 

Share the facts below via Twitter to help spread the message about the fight against malaria.

Reduction in All-cause Mortality Rates of Children Under Five - President's Malaria Initiative (PMI)

FORUM : World Malaria Day - 25 April

    On April 25th people across the globe take part in a wide range of activities to mark World Malaria Day. For half the world every day is malaria day - a day to keep up the fight against this killer disease. This website is a communication and advocacy platform for civil society north and south to showcase your work , share resources , engage in dialogue, contribute views, ideas and events to mobilise the world against malaria.

World Malaria Day 2015 theme is Invest in Malaria, Defeat Malaria.

 LINKS :

• The Strategic Framework for ‪Malaria Communication‬ at the Country Level 2012-2017- Roll Back Malaria
• Guidelines for the treatment of malaria. Third edition, 2015
• Roll Back Malaria Partnership call to action
• Feature: India drives down malaria rates, sets sights on elimination
•  Strategic roles for behaviour change communication in a changing ‪malaria‬ landscape - Malaria Journal
• Shrinking the Malaria Map - U.S. Department of States
• Visit the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) website.
• Read PMI's 2015 Annual Report.
• Share facts on World Malaria Day 2015.
• World malaria day – quiz - The Guardian  

PUBLICATIONS

Guardian shorts : The Deadly Air

Meet the cutting-edge scientists who are genetically modifying mosquitoes on the frontlines of the fight against one of the world’s deadliest diseases: malaria.Click here to read a free extract and buy the eBook for just £1.99. 

 Audio/Video :  World Malaria Day 2015.

For World Malaria Day, 25 April, WHO calls on the global health community to urgently address significant gaps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria. Despite dramatic declines in malaria cases and deaths since 2000, more than half a million lives are still lost to this preventable disease each year