Key Figures
Photos by Bonnie Gillespie, Johns Hopkins University
What we need
The following interventions need to be delivered worldwide by 2010:
- More than 700 million insecticide-treated bednets – half of those in Africa
- More than 200 million of doses of effective treatment
- Indoor spraying for around 200 million homes annually
- Approximately 1.5 billion diagnostic tests annually
What it will cost
- In 2010, $6.2 billion will be needed
- From 2011 to 2020, roughly $5 billion per year will be need to sustain the gains of control measures.
- In addition, about $1 billion per year will be needed for research and development of new prevention and treatment tools
What will be the impact
A dramatically expanded access to core anti-malaria interventions (protective nets, spraying, diagnostics and effective drugs) will result in a sharp decline of malaria cases and deaths. However, these measures will not eliminate the mosquito vector, the parasite or the favorable environmental conditions for transmission in many countries and regions. In some countries with naturally high transmission rates, control measures may need to be maintained for 15- 20 years or longer until new tools enabling elimination are developed or new research indicates that control measures can be safely reduced without risk of resurgence.
Impact of scale-up of all key interventions on malaria mortality in 20 high burden African countries
Source: Global Malaria Action Plan
As we count down to the end of 2010, the time has come to count malaria out.
