An overview of malaria - its prevalence and disease burden, symptoms and treatment. The World Malaria Report is accessible from this page - in particular, Chapter 2 Global Trends in the Burden of Malaria provides clear data and graphs.
This series looks at how this infectious disease is caused, the devastating impact it can have on poverty-stricken communities, and the management strategies that have sought to control the disease in the past and the ones that could eradicate it in the future.