Malaria Prevention Tools Avert 170M Cases, 1M Deaths in 2024
By Ayomide Otitoju The wider deployment of new malaria prevention tools, including dual-ingredient insecticide-treated nets and WHO-recommended vaccines, helped avert an estimated 170 million cases and 1 million deaths in 2024, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual World Malaria Report. Since WHO approved the first malaria vaccines in 2021, 24 countries have integrated…