The latest World Malaria Report, published today by the World Health Organization, shows that malaria cases have increased for the second consecutive year, with an estimated 219 million cases globally in 2017 - a rise of more than 2.5 million.
Since 2000, significant progress has been made against malaria, but this year's report confirms that the world is off-track to achieving targets on reducing malaria deaths and disease by at least 40 percent by 2020, as outlined in WHO's Global Technical Strategy (GTS) for Malaria. Even though the number of deaths from malaria slightly decreased in 2017, a child still dies from malaria every two minutes.
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