India, Dec. 6 -- The authoritative World Health Organization (WHO) World Malaria Report, published recently, shows that resistance to antimalarial drugs now poses one of the most acute risks to control efforts across Africa and beyond.

The parasitic mosquito-borne disease is both preventable and curable but it remains a serious and deadly global health threat - claiming hundreds of thousands of lives - mostly among young children and pregnant women, predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa.

Nevertheless, malaria remains a deadly concern. There were more than 280 million malaria cases and over 600,000 malaria deaths in 2024, with 95 per cent of cases concentrated in the Africa region - most in just 11 countries.

A major stumbling block to th...