Donors pledge more than US$4 billion in renewed bid to cut new malaria cases by 90%.
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Before the summit, total funding for malaria control and elimination stood at $3.3 billion. This is just under half of the $6.8 billion that the WHO said it needed to reach a target of reducing malaria cases by 90% by 2032.Malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and NTDs have been on the rise in the past few years, largely from disruptions in diagnosis and treatment caused by the COVID pandemic. In 2020, there were an estimated 241 million cases of malaria and 627,000 deaths.
Representatives of some 65 African countries were at the conference and together they pledged $2.2 billion towards ending malaria and NTDs. The remainder has been pledged by high-income countries, philanthropic organizations and pharmaceutical companies.