Malaria deaths rose in 2024, funding cuts risk surge, WHO says
Published on: Dec. 4, 2025, 2:32 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
While 47 countries have been certified as malaria-free, others are seeing a jump in cases – in 2024, particularly Ethiopia, Madagascar and Yemen. RISK OF RESURGENCE “Too many people are still dying from a preventable and curable disease,” said Daniel Ngamije Madandi, director of the WHO’s global malaria programme. He said rising resistance to malaria drugs and the insecticides used on some bed nets, alongside climate change and conflict, were all factors challenging the response to the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes.
