The burden of malaria in the SEA Region is still high; it is second to Sub-Saharan Africa:
– around 1.32 billion people are at risk of malaria
– most cases are among the productive age groups, mainly the poor and vulnerable populations (e.g. migrant
workers, subsistence farmers, ethnic communities)
– in 2010, the reported cases and deaths due to malaria were 2.4 million and 2426, respectively; WHO estimated
that there were 28 million cases and 38 000 deaths due to malaria.
Transmission occurs in 10 of the 11 countries in the SEA Region, mainly in hard-to-reach rural areas and, in some
urban areas in India. Maldives has been free of malaria since 1984