Regional Strategic Plan for Malaria in the Americas 2006-2010

Malaria is one of the diseases that continues to cause significant harm to public health and human productivity in many parts of the world including the Americas. Despite many medical breakthroughs and advances in the past few decades, the disease persists to afflict an estimated 350 to 500 million people worldwide annually. While only about a million of these cases are reported from the Americas, the real tragedy of the situation is that the disease is preventable and that treatment is availabl