World Health Organization Report: Drug resistance in anti-malarial drugs is threatening global progress in malaria control.

The World Health Organization released the "World Malaria Report 2025" on the 4th, stating that the wider use of new anti-malaria tools in 2024 helped prevent about 170 million cases of malaria and 1 million deaths, but drug resistance to anti-malarial drugs is increasing, hindering the achievement of the goal of eliminating malaria. The report says that the anti-malaria tools recommended by the World Health Organization are increasingly being integrated into broader health systems. Since the World Health Organization approved the world's first malaria vaccine in 2021, 24 countries have included the vaccine in their routine immunization programs. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention measures are also being scaled up, now implemented in 20 countries, covering 54 million children in 2024, a huge increase from about 200,000 in 2012.