World malaria report 2014 - summary

Overview

This summary version of the World malaria report 2014 provides an overview of the key points of the report.

Since 2000, the financing and coverage of malaria control programmes has increased remarkably. This has resulted in a wide-scale reduction in malaria incidence and mortality rates. Of 106 countries with ongoing transmission of malaria in 2000, 64 are meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of reversing the incidence of malaria. Of these 64 countries, 55 are on track to meet the World Health Assembly and Roll Back Malaria (RBM) targets of reducing malaria case incidence rates by 75% by 2015. Global estimated malaria case incidence rates fell by 30% between 2000 and 2013, while estimated mortality rates fell by 47%.