Malaria: Disease Control

(asked on 8th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report by the World Health Organisation entitled World malaria report 2022, published on 8 December 2022.


Answered by
Andrew Mitchell Portrait
Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
This question was answered on 14th December 2022

The World Malaria Report 2022 reported that numbers of malaria cases and deaths remained broadly stable in 2021 following an increase in 2020, with 247 million cases and 619,000 deaths. The eleven WHO high burden countries have recorded modest positive results with deaths reducing from 445,000 to 428,000 and cases holding steady at 168 million compared to 165 million in 2020. On 12 December I gave the keynote speech at the UK Launch of the World Malaria Report.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is the main channel for UK funding to address malaria. The UK is a long-standing supporter of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the third largest historic donor. The UK has pledged £1 billion to the Global Fund's seventh replenishment (2023-2025), which will help save over 1 million lives and avert over 28 million new infections across the three diseases. In addition to this the UK also supports research and development in to new tools to address malaria and provides bilateral support to malaria endemic countries to strengthen their health systems.

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