“World Malaria Day 2025” by Toby Tremlett🔹

Another year, another World Malaria Day.

WHO reports that an estimated 263 million cases and 597 000 malaria deaths occurred worldwide in 2023, with 95% of the deaths occuring in Africa.

What's still the case:

Malaria is still one of the top five causes of death for children under 5.

The Our World In Data page on Malaria is still a fantastic resource to learn about Malaria.

What's different this year:

NB- this post is far from comprehensive. I'd appreciate people adding more information about the development of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, or the speed of the malaria vaccine roll-outs in the comments.

Malaria vaccines.

We are now over a year into the launch of routine malaria vaccinations in Africa. GAVI has reported that 12 million doses of vaccines have been delivered to 17 countries. There are also very positive signs from the pilot, which ran from 2019-23 [...]

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Outline:

(00:27) What's still the case:

(00:42) What's different this year:

(00:58) Malaria vaccines.

(01:48) Cuts to foreign aid

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First published:
April 25th, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kbsxHPyw7AZJWxniA/world-malaria-day-2025

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