This article is published in collaboration with Statista
by Anna Fleck
Between 2010 and 2021, roughly two thirds of funding for malaria control and elimination was provided by international countries and donors while another third was provided by the governments of endemic countries. Data compiled by the World Health Organisation and presented in their World Malaria Report 2022 shows that the United States was the biggest donor, making up 36 percent of all funding donations. The next biggest donor countries were the United Kingdom (8 percent), France, (4 percent), Germany (3 percent) and Japan (3 percent).
There were an estimated 247 million malaria cases across 84 malaria endemic countries in 2021, up from 245 million in 2020. The increase is partly attributed to disruptions to services during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as with the handing out of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs), as well as in diagnosis and treatment.
According to the report, while 29 countries accounted for 96 percent of malaria cases globally, just four countries - Nigeria (27 percent), the Democratic Republic of Congo (12 percent), Uganda (5 percent) and Mozambique (4 percent) - accounted for almost half of all cases worldwide.
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