Malaria, Polio, and COVID-19: Lessons for Existing and Future Pandemics

This International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (Aug. 9), the UN called for a new social contract, one that expresses genuine cooperation and partnership for the common good to ensure that “no one is left behind” and to put a stop to exclusion and marginalization.

APLMA is an affiliation of Asian and Pacific heads of government formed to accelerate progress against malaria and to eliminate it in the region by 2030.

More than 90% of India’s reported malaria cases were concentrated in just 8 states, all of which have significant tribal populations.