During the past decade, investments in malaria prevention and control have created unparalleled momentum and saved more than a million lives.
Malaria mortality rates have been cut by over a quarter worldwide, and by one third in the World Health Organization
(WHO) African Region.
However, malaria transmission still occurs in 99 countries and the disease caused an estimated 655,000 deaths in 2010, mainly among children under five years of age in sub-Saharan Africa.1 It is vital that malaria remains high on the political
agenda in both malaria-endemic and donor countries, and that investments are scaled up further to support prevention, control and elimination eff orts.