RBM Partnership to End
Malaria
The past fifteen years have seen tremendous
gains...
RBM Partnership to End
Malaria
The past fifteen years have seen tremendous
gains in reducing the burden of disease and progressing towards malaria
elimination. Between 2000 and 2015, global malaria incidence fell by 37 percent
and mortality rates by 60 percent. Over 6.2 million deaths
were averted, primarily among children less than five years of age. Expansions
in financing, strong political commitments, novel diagnostic and preventative
measures, and multi-sectoral co-ordination have facilitated this progress.
Since 1998, RBM has been central to the global fight against malaria. It has
been essential to mobilizing these unprecedented resources and scaled up
innovative interventions and to put the world on to a path of eliminating
malaria.
Despite these gains, malaria still poses a
significant threat to public health and sustainable development. WHO report
indicates that in 2016, there were 91 countries that reported a total of 216
million cases of malaria cases and 445 000 deaths. Although malaria case incidence has fallen
globally since 2010, the rate of decline has stalled and even reversed in some
regions since 2014. Mortality rates have followed a similar pattern. Worldwide,
15 countries - all but one in sub-Saharan Africa - carry 80% of the global
malaria burden.
RBM's Vision is of a world free from the burden of malaria.
The RBM Partnership is based in Geneva and
hosted by UNOPS.