World Malaria Day 2010

Counting malaria out

April 25, 2010 — World Malaria Day marks a concerted effort by the malaria community to control and gradually eliminate a disease that still kills approximately 900,000 people each year, almost all of them young children in Africa. Underlying the community's strategy to make malaria prevention and treatment services widely available to people who need them, is the need to expand the research and development of vaccines and other new technologies.

Find out more

• On World Malaria Day 2010, MVI and partners celebrate our major accomplishments and look forward to the "Decade of Vaccines." Read a World Malaria Day perspective from MVI Director, Christian Loucq.
• A Ghanaian scientist says that the malaria community needs all of the weapons it can muster in the war against malaria. Read about Professor Tsiri Agbenyega's efforts to combine malaria vaccine research with grassroots practicality.
• Events are being held around the world to commemorate World Malaria Day. Find out more about some of these events.
• The most advanced malaria vaccine candidate is now in the final stage of clinical testing. Learn more about RTS,S and its development.
• Late-stage testing of a malaria vaccine is offering new hope in the international effort to control malaria. This video highlights the role of new tools in the overall fight against malaria.

Additional resources

• Slide show: Photos from RTS,S Phase 3 trial sites
• Blog: World Malaria Day 2010: From the frontlines of African malaria vaccine research
• Blog: World Malaria Day 2010: Working to develop a malaria vaccine
• Fact sheet: The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (194 KB PDF)
• Fact sheet: RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate (432 KB PDF)
• Fact sheet: Preparing for a future malaria vaccine in Africa: The Malaria Vaccine Decision-Making Framework (186 KB PDF)
• Website: The PATH Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
• Website: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation