Open AccessWorld Malaria Day 2015- What’s New?
Author(s) -
Arvind Bamanikar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2395-7565
DOI - 10.31254/jmr.2015.1101
Subject(s) - malaria , plasmodium knowlesi , environmental health , population , geography , socioeconomics , medicine , plasmodium falciparum , plasmodium vivax , immunology , economics
World Malaria Day is observed on 25th April every year. April 25 was designated as Malaria Awareness Day in 2007 by President George W. Bush. World Malaria Day theme for 2013-14-15 is “Invest in the future. Defeat malaria”. Burden of Malaria Approximately half of the world's population is at risk of malaria. 97 countries and territories had ongoing malaria transmission in 2014. Plasmodium knowlesi – a species that causes malaria among monkeys has been detected in recent years in certain areas of South-East Asia. The new strategy, which aims to reduce malaria cases and deaths by 90% by 2030 from current levels, will be presented to the World Health Assembly in May. In the last decade, only four countries have been declared malaria-free. The goal has been set up to eliminate the disease from a further 35 countries by 2030. [1]