Malawi National Malaria Control Programme

Malawi's National Malaria Control Programme operates within the Ministry of Health and carries out the country's response to a disease that remains a leading cause of illness nationwide. Its current National Malaria Strategic Plan, covering 2023 to 2030, builds on the preceding 2017 to 2022 strategy and is informed by the World Health Organization's Global Technical Strategy for malaria, which envisions a malaria-free world by 2030, a vision Malawi has formally adopted as its own. The plan sets specific, measurable targets across four pillars: raising the share of the population protected by at least one vector control intervention from 37 percent in 2022 to at least 90 percent by 2030; increasing the share of suspected malaria cases that are tested from 98 percent toward 100 percent, with all confirmed cases treated, by 2030; improving malaria data quality from 94 percent to 99 percent to support evidence-based decisions; and strengthening programme management capacity from 56 percent to more than 90 percent effectiveness by 2030.