World Malaria Day is being observed today
World Malaria Day across the world, including Pakistan, is being observed today.
Pakistan joins the rest of the world to celebrate World Malaria Day today. The global campaign theme for this year and the coming years is: “Invest in the future. Defeat Malaria”.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), malaria kills an estimated 650,000 people worldwide, mainly children under five years in sub-Saharan Africa.
Every year, more than 200 million cases occur, most of them never tested or registered. A recent plateauing of international funding has slowed down progress, and emerging drug and insecticide resistance threatens to reverse recent gains.
