In recent years, progress to end malaria has ground to a standstill. According to WHO's World malaria report 2019, there were no global gains in reducing new infections over the period 2014 to 2018. And nearly as many people died from malaria in 2018 as the year before.

Urgent action is needed to get back on track, and ownership of the challenge lies in the hands of countries most affected by malaria. The “Zero malaria” campaign engages all members of society: political leaders who control government policy decisions and budgets; private sector companies that will benefit from a malaria-free workforce; and communities affected by malaria, whose buy-in and ownership of malaria control interventions is critical to success. Join us in our shared effort to get to zero malaria.

In Guinea-Bissau UNDP is working with the government on an initiative to digitize health data. With support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, along with the World Bank, the initiative has introduced mobile tablets for data collection, increasing the timeliness of health reports by nearly 50 percent over six-months. The digitized data system has also allowed real time monitoring of malaria, and enabled clinics to keep track of malaria medicines and health supplies. All of these factors meant malaria deaths dropped by 16 percent from 2017 to 2018.

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