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+category: products
+title: "Malaria Elimination Progress Backsliding: Climate Change, Conflict Driving Recent Spike"
+region_id: "global"
+region_title: "Global & Transnational Products"
+date_published: 2024-02-01
+product_id: "U2867"
+product_pdf: "World_MalariaCases_2024Feb1_HIU_U2867.pdf"
+product_jpg: "World_MalariaCases_2024Feb1_HIU_U2867.jpg"
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+keywords:
+  - malaria
+  - cases
+  - disease
+  - endemic
+  - mosquito
+  - prevention
+  - treatment
+  - health
+  - access
+  - refugees
+  - displacement
+  - flooding
+  - climate change
+  - conflict
+  - insecurity
+  - humanitarian assistance
+  - WHO
+
+tweet: "New HIU infographic on global malaria cases:"
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+The world saw an estimated 249 million malaria cases in 2022, erasing nearly a decade of progress towards the goal of eliminating malaria globally, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Flooding exacerbated by climate change, increasing cross-border travel and refugee movements, and a breakdown of health services in areas with active conflict contributed to the majority of the increase in malaria cases from 2021 to 2022. Nearly 90% of people in need of humanitarian assistance live in malaria-endemic countries, according to the WHO, where humanitarian emergencies disrupt treatment and prevention programs, expand mosquito breeding sites, and expose displaced, non-immune populations to the disease.