Malaria

What You Need to know about the Global Fight Against Malaria

Malaria is a quiet problem, killing children and pregnant women in 97 countries; children under five make up 70% of malaria deaths. Malaria’s mosquito vector makes it difficult to eradicate, and pregnant women lack access to lifesaving protective drugs. The...

Malaria cases are plummeting worldwide. But there’s one place it’s making a comeback

Ed note. This op-ed, by Thierry Diagana and Nick White, originally appeared in Project Syndicate and is reprinted with permission. SINGAPORE – The dramatic drop in malaria deaths since the beginning of the century is one of the great public-health...

4 Charts and 1 Stephen Curry Explain How Humanity is Winning the Fight Against Malaria

What a difference 15 years makes. In 2000 839,000 people died each year from Malaria. Last year, that figure was closer to 438,000 a 48% drop. Today is World Malaria Day. And, though this is an international day dedicated to...

The World-Historic News Today that You May Have Missed

This is a big deal. In a hot-off-the-presses report, UNICEF and the World Health Organization announced today that malaria death rates have dropped 60% since 2000. This translates into 6.2 million lives saved over the past 15 years — the...

Rubella Goes The Way of the Dodo

Rubella has been eliminated from the Americas. More specifically, there has been no indigenous transmission of the virus in North America, South America or the Caribbean for the last three years. This may not make front page news–so far it’s...

Humanity Can — and Will — #DefeatMalaria

Believe it or not, humans are winning the millennia old fight against Malaria. Last year about 500,000 people died from the disease, mostly in sub-saharan Africa. Fifteen years before that, the death toll was about double that, and the geographic...

Inside the Winning Fight Against Malaria

Humanity is winning the fight against Malaria. Since the advent of the Global Fund, the Millennium Development Goals and the President’s Malaria Initiative, death and illness rates have dropped precipitously around the globe. Now, talk of total worldwide eradication is not as preposterous...