Malaria Treatment & Prevention
Key Malaria Facts
Summary of key malaria facts from Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership website.
-Annual cases globally: 247 million
-Annual deaths globally: 881,000
(91% of deaths were in Africa. Pregnant women and children under age 5 are most at risk)
-Population at risk: 3.3 billion
-Numbers of countries affected: 109
-Top five countries of malaria deaths:
1. Nigeria: 225,424
2. Democratic Republic of the Congo: 96,113
3. Uganda: 43,490
4. Ethiopia: 40,963
5. United Republic of Tanzania: 38,730
-Relevant Millennium Development Goals (MDGs):
MDG 1 – Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
MDG 2 – Achieve universal primary education
MDG 4 – Reduce child mortality
MDG 5 – Improve maternal health
MDG 6 – Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
MDG 8 – global partnerships for development and access to affordable drugs
Cost of interventions:
Long-lasting insecticidal net: $10 (includes the net, distribution, teaching usage and monitoring usage)
Course of ACTs for adult: $6
Current level of coverage:
Treatment: more than 100 million
Nets: 66.2 million
Diagnostics: 16 million rapid diagnostics tests delivered in 2006 among which 11 million in Africa
Required coverage by 2010:
Protective nets: 730 million long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). (350 million in Africa)
Indoor spraying with insecticide: 172 million households need annual spraying.
Preventive treatment for pregnant women: 25 million pregnant women annually.
Diagnostic tests: approximately 1.5 billion annually.
Drugs: 228 million doses of ACTs are needed to treat P. falciparum annually; additional 19 million doses of chloroquine and primaquine are needed annually for P.vivax.
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