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World Malaria Day 2020

"Accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world."


World Malaria Day, on April 25th each year, is used to highlight the burden of this disease to the world. This years theme is accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world.

The theme highlights the disparities and inequities in access to malaria treatment, prevention and detection services across the world, and even within the same country. The inequities are not just down to money, but also attitude, culture and the stigma of disease.

On this page, Malaria Journal highlights some of our most talked about articles in recent years relating to inequity.

This is a retrospective collection and all articles on this page underwent Malaria Journal's standard peer review process.

Malaria articles published at BMC

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Malaria and COVID-19
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New Content ItemThe top 1%: quantifying the unequal distribution of malaria in Brazil
"There is no canonical path to malaria elimination and a more targeted and dynamic surveillance will be needed if Brazil decides to adopt the elimination target."

Malaria as part of larger, global issues

Malaria blogs from BugBitten

New Content Item BugBitten is a dedicated blog platform for the  parasitology and vector biology community. It is run by a small group of regular bloggers assisted by guest posts from the community.

Dancing with mosquitoes: engaging children in the fight against malaria

Greening Urban Landscapes: A Climate-Resilient Future with Mosquito Challenges in Mind

Finally, a malaria vaccine is being distributed

Malaria-free Cabo Verde: a public health success!

A new potential way of tracking malaria incubation periods in mosquitos

Locally acquired malaria in Europe and the US

New report of a bacterium that blocks malaria transmission

A jab at malaria – WHO, GAVI and UNICEF announce mass vaccine distribution plans

Could making buffets for mosquitoes help us learn about their preferences for human hosts?

Malaria Prevention in Rural Cambodia

Is a new threat being blustered to Africa?

Join us for our #talkingmalaria tweetchat

New Content ItemJoin @drbhargavirao at 12 noon BST 24th April 2020 for a discussion on malaria prevention, interventions and eradication.

The tweetchat is hosted jointly by @MSFsci and @malariajournal and will use the hashtag #talkingmalaria