WHO fact sheet on malaria providing key facts, definition, information on transmission, symptoms, who is at risk, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, insecticide resistance, surveillance, elimination, vaccines and WHO response.

Early in 1942, the U.S. established a program called Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA), "established to control malaria around military training bases in the southern United States and its territories, where malaria was still problematic".

Malaria is a serious disease caused by a parasite that infects a certain type of mosquito.

Malaria is a serious, sometimes fatal, illness caused by parasites. You get it from the bite of infected mosquitoes. Antimalarial medications can cure it.

The 2024 edition reviews investments in malaria programmes and research and assesses progress across all major intervention areas – prevention, diagnosis, treatment, elimination and surveillance – in 80 malaria-endemic countries.

Malaria is an infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. Unlike bacterial or viral infections, malaria is the result of a parasitic invasion that takes residence inside red blood cells.

Malaria can be fatal, particularly when caused by the plasmodium species common in Africa. The World Health Organization estimates that about 94% of all malaria deaths occur in Africa — most commonly in children under the age of 5.

Malaria is a serious relapsing infection in humans, characterized by periodic attacks of chills and fever, anemia, enlargement of the spleen, and often fatal complications. It is caused by one-celled parasites of the genus Plasmodium that are transmitted to humans by the bite of Anopheles mosquitoes.

Malaria is a serious disease caused by a parasite that infects a certain type of mosquito.

This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of global malaria with a focus on Africa and global efforts toward the continent’s malaria elimination goals.