Question: What are the countries with the most cases of Malaria?

Sophie Adjalley answered on 16 Jun 2020: last edited 16 Jun 2020 10:58 am

Hi EvaR, yes, sorry, I think I tried to answer your question during the chat but ran out of time!
I tend to think about it in terms of geographic areas rather than countries specifically as the list of those is long. An excellent resource is the Malaria Report WHO publishes every year where you’ll find detailed information on the number of global and regional cases, and what measures are being taken to lower these numbers: https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/world-malaria-report-2019.
Most cases occur in Sub-saharan Africa (with most deaths as well) and India, but there are also numerous cases in South East Asia and in South America. In the latter, some countries that have become particularly politically unstable in the past couple of years have seen a worrying increase in malaria cases. Note that more than half of the cases in Africa occur in 6 countries only, so the bulk of the infection is restricted to a limited number of countries. Anyway, all these aspects, including presence of antimalarial drug and insecticide-resistance are taken into consideration when establishing programs towards disease prevention, control or elimination.