Assessing the Health Impact of Malaria Control Interventions in the MDG/Sustainable Development Goal Era: A New Generation of Impact Evaluations

Alexander K Rowe

doi:10.4269/ajtmh.17-0509

Abstract

Assessing the Health Impact of Malaria Control Interventions in the MDG/Sustainable Development Goal Era: A New Generation of Impact Evaluations

Highlights

Malaria remains a major cause of preventable death
The World Health Organization estimated that malaria killed 429,000 people in 2015, with most deaths occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and among children under 5 years old.[1]
Current targets, which correspond to the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are to reduce malaria incidence and mortality by 90% from 2015 to 2030.4 More than US$ 20 billion has been dedicated to the fight over the past decade, with an estimated US$ 2.9 billion spent on malaria control and elimination in 2015.1

Summary

Introduction

Malaria remains a major cause of preventable death. The World Health Organization estimated that malaria killed 429,000 people (uncertainty range: 235,000–639,000) in 2015, with most deaths occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and among children under 5 years old.[1]. Ambitious RBM and MDGs, along with the substantial funding that these goals have attracted, made it important to conduct impact evaluations to show how much malaria control efforts had reduced malaria mortality.

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