Special Collection for World Malaria Day 2026
Feeding female Anopheles merus mosquito. Credit CDC James Gathany.
The theme of World Malaria Day this year is Driven to End Malaria: Now We Can. Now We Must. Considering the remarkable progress in malaria control, treatment and prevention in recent years, the theme is timely. The articles in this Special Collection, published in recognition of World Malaria Day 2026, showcase some of the advances aimed at malaria eradication.
The articles from Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene have a particular focus on vector control and diagnostic technologies for malaria, reflecting the expertise of our community of authors. In International Health, several articles examine the changes to malaria programmes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, identifying lessons for the continuity of malaria interventions during periods of exceptional challenge.
Overall, the consistent theme across the Special Collection is optimism for reducing the effects of malaria in affected regions. As Richardson and Liu remarked in their 2025 article Can malaria be eliminated? 15 years on, published in Transactions:
‘We have reached a certain point where we can envisage the last mile and, more importantly, are equipped with the package of necessary tools for malaria elimination. This includes development of vaccines and drugs and the construction of systematic intervention frameworks with continuous scale-up of capacity. As we advance, it is the combination of innovation, global experiences and systematic strategies that will navigate us towards a malaria-free world.’
Transactions
Adaptation of lot quality assurance sampling to monitor seasonal malaria chemoprevention delivery performance
Sol Richardson, Taiwo Ibinaiye, Olusola Oresanya, Chibuzo Oguoma, Chukwu Okoronkwo, Emanuel Shekarau, Daniel Sprague, Kevin Baker, Monica Anna de Cola, Arantxa Roca-Feltrer, Chuks Nnaji, Christian Rassi
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 642–645, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae051
Advances in population-based interventions to control falciparum malaria
Samuel E Glossop, Thomas J Peto, Bipin Adhikari
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 119, Issue 12, December 2025, Pages 1316–1323, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf088
Can malaria be eliminated? 15 years on
Youjia Liu, Sol Richardson
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 119, Issue 7, July 2025, Pages 777–779, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf018
Cerebral malaria: of mice and men
Chamarika J Weerasekera, Nicholas J White
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 120, Issue 3, March 2026, Pages 254–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf126
Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria at very low parasitaemias using a commercially available LAMP assay and RDT
Ruth O Payne, Nick J Edwards, Yrene Themistocleous, Sarah E Silk, Jordan R Barrett, Thomas A Rawlinson, Ian W Lim, Simon J Draper, Angela M Minassian
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 119, Issue 10, October 2025, Pages 1149–1156, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf050
Epidemiology of malaria in Chhattisgarh, India: a surveillance data analysis, 2015–2023
Dharmendra Kumar Gahwai, Mogan Kaviprawin, Gollapalli Pavan Kumar, Deepak Kumar Panigrahi, Jaswant Kumar Das, Kalyani Patel, Meenakshi Roy, Seema Tigga, Tripti Jain, Yogesh Patel, Amit Kumar, Aarthy Ramasamy, Manikandanesan Sakthivel, Ganeshkumar Parasuraman
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 119, Issue 12, December 2025, Pages 1335–1341, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf072
Household satisfaction with health services and response strategies to malaria in mountain communities of Uganda
Siya Aggrey, Anthony Egeru, John Bosco Kalule, Akim Tafadzwa Lukwa, Noah Mutai, Sonja Hartnack
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 119, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 85–96, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae084
Integrated vector management for malaria control: a review of approaches and effectiveness
Gbeminiyi R Otolorin, María E Castellanos, Oyelola A Adegboye, Emma S McBryde
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 119, Issue 11, November 2025, Pages 1223–1232, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf084
Remoscope: a label-free imaging cytometer for malaria diagnostics
Paul M Lebel, Ilakkiyan Jeyakumar, Michelle W L Khoo, James Emorut, Chris Charlton, Aditi Saxena, Axel Jacobsen, Emily Huynh, William Wu, Greg Courville, Pei-Chuan Fu, Madhura Raghavan, Robert Puccinelli, Peter Olwoch, Grant Dorsey, Philip J Rosenthal, Joseph DeRisi, Rafael Gomez-Sjoberg
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 119, Issue 9, September 2025, Pages 1100–1111, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traf070
International Health
Accelerating Nigeria towards malaria elimination requires moving away from business as usual: insights from a political economy analysis
Elisabeth G Chestnutt, Stefanie Meredith, Babatunde Ipaye, Dawit Getachew, James K Tibenderana, Ebere Anyachukwu, Timothy Obot, Kolawole Maxwell
International Health, ihaf113, https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihaf113
Delivering malaria services during the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges and lessons from an international non-governmental organisation
Elisabeth G Chestnutt, Madeleine Marasciulo, Godfrey Magumba, Kolawole Maxwell, Christian Rassi, Andrew Parkes, Charles Nelson, James K Tibenderana
International Health, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2026, https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihag004
Delivery of malaria services during a pandemic: lessons from COVID-19 in Nigeria
Emma K Manning, Olusola Oresanya, James K Tibenderana, Kolawole Maxwell
International Health, Volume 17, Issue 6, November 2025, Pages 866–868, https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihaf074
Ensuring continuity of malaria services in times of crisis: lessons learned in Uganda during the COVID-19 pandemic
Emma K Manning, Godfrey Magumba, James K Tibenderana, Anthony Nuwa
International Health, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2026, Pages 137–139, https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihaf107
Health literacy and household financial loss on malaria treatment for children under five in Ghana: a patients’ perspective
Millicent Ofori Boateng, Derek Asuman, Nuworza Kugbey, Padmore Adusei Amoah, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Ulrika Enemark
International Health, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 77–83, https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihae022
Progress towards malaria elimination: insights from Cambodia's mobile malaria workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Emma K Manning, Rekol Huy, Sovannaroth Siv, Po Ly, James K Tibenderana, Lieven Vernaeve
International Health, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 5–7, https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihaf080
Highlights from this issue of International Health include a study investigating the correlation between ozone exposure and preterm births and insights from lived experiences of mental health issues of Bangladeshi children, and the barriers impacting their care.
