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President Advocate Duma Gideon Boko, ALMA Chair and President of the Republic of Botswana, and H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, co-authored an op-ed for World Malaria Day 2025.

Published in Mmegi (Botswana), The Guardian (Tanzania) and Mwananchi (Tanzania), the piece underlines the importance of shared responsibility and calls for renewed efforts in the fight against malaria.

Malaria remains one of Africa’s greatest threats to health, prosperity and the future of our children. We must act, and we must act now.

Today, a perfect storm threatens our continent’s malaria fight: climate change expanding transmission zones, rising insecticide and drug resistance, funding gaps and humanitarian crises disrupting health services.

Africa needs an additional US$5.2 billion annually to fully implement national malaria eradication strategies. Without it, we risk a reversal that would undo decades of progress.

But there is hope. Countries are deploying new tools, including dual-insecticide nets, seasonal chemoprevention and the rollout of malaria vaccines.