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The World Health Organisation (WHO), have today published their World Malaria Report 2016. The report summarizes information received from 91 malaria-endemic countries and other sources, and updates the analyses presented in the 2015 report.
The World Malaria Report is WHO’s flagship malaria publication, released each year in December. It assesses global and regional malaria trends, highlights progress towards global targets, and describes opportunities and challenges in controlling and eliminating the disease.
Read the World Malaria Report 2016
According to the report, there were an estimated 212 million new cases of malaria worldwide in 2015, and 429 000 malaria deaths. The WHO African Region accounted for most global cases of malaria (90%), followed by the South-East Asia Region (7%) and the Eastern Mediterranean Region (2%). Between 2010 and 2015, malaria incidence rates fell by 21% globally and in the African Region. During this same period, malaria mortality rates fell by an estimated 29% globally and by 31% in the African Region.
Other regions have achieved impressive reductions in their malaria burden. Since 2010, the malaria mortality rate has declined by 58% in the Western Pacific Region, by 46% in the South-East Asia Region, by 37% in the Region of the Americas and by 6% in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. In 2015, the European Region was malaria-free:all 53 countries in the region reported at least 1 year of zero locally-acquired cases of malaria.
Health Protection Scotland (HPS), under the umbrella of the Scottish Malaria Advisory Group (SMAG), use the WHO data, and various other sources, to develop the TRAVAX country recommendations and accompanying malaria maps. This advice is updated on a continually ongoing basis to reflect the changing incidence of malaria globally, and the methodology has been previously published.
SMAG recommendations may differ in some instances from that provided by the Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention (ACMP) and NaTHNaC. Healthcare professionals are assured, however, that if they follow either standard, their travellers will be receiving expert advice based on evidence-based recommendations.
