• In a historic gathering in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé, African health ministers, global malaria partners, funding agencies, scientists, civil society organisations and other principal malaria stakeholders pledged to end malaria deaths.

STATISTICS

• Globally, the number of malaria cases in 2022 surged significantly compared to the pre-COVID-19 era.
• The total cases rose from 233 million in 2019 to a staggering 249 million.
• Africa remains the epicentre of the malaria crisis, bearing an immense burden.
  • It accounts for 94 per cent of all global malaria cases and a staggering 95 per cent of global malaria-related deaths, totaling an estimated 580,000 deaths in 2022.
• Significantly, the 11 African countries whose health ministers took part in the Yaoundé conference — Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania — “account for more than 70 per cent of the global malaria burden.”