The World Malaria Day (WMD) is being observed every year on 25 April across the world to recognise the global efforts to control preventable vector-borne disease malaria.

• It also seeks to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for elimination and control of malaria.
• The theme of 2018 WMD is “Ready to beat malaria“.
• It was established to provide understanding and education of malaria and also spread information on the year-long intensified implementation of national malaria-control strategies.
• It is one of eight official global public health campaigns currently marked by the WHO.

Malaria is mosquito-borne infectious disease most commonly transmitted through the bite of infected female Anopheles mosquito. It caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to Plasmodium type. The World Malaria Day (WMD) was established by the 60th session of World Health Assembly, a decision-making body of World Health Organization (WHO) in May 2007.