WHO: World Malaria Day – 25 April 2013
The global campaign theme for 2013 and the coming years is Invest in the future. Defeat malaria. World Malaria Day was instituted by WHO Member States during the 2007 World Health Assembly. It is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control. It is also an opportunity for new donors to join the global malaria partnership, and for research and academic institutions to showcase their scientific work.
More at: http://www.who.int/campaigns/malaria-day/2013/en/index.html

WHO calls for greater investment to eliminate malaria
SEAR/PR 1557
24 April 2013
Excerpt
Approximately 1.3 billion people in South-East Asia continue to be at risk of malaria, even though substantial progress has been made in controlling the disease. With support from WHO and other partner agencies, countries are aiming to reduce malaria cases and deaths by 75% by 2015 (from year 2000) and contain resistance to the antimalarial drug artemisinin, with the long-term goal of eliminating the disease. On World Malaria Day, WHO calls on all Member States and partners to increase investment in malaria…
http://www.searo.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2013/pr1557/en/index.html

NIH: Statement on World Malaria Day
April 25, 2013
B.F. (Lee) Hall, M.D., Ph.D., and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The National Institutes of Health marks World Malaria Day 2013, which has the world theme Invest in the Future: Defeat Malaria, by acknowledging the considerable toll the disease continues to exact in many parts of the world. We also renew our commitment to the research needed to better understand the disease process in malaria, find new ways to diagnose and treat people with malaria, control the mosquitoes that spread it, and prevent malaria through vaccination.
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/apr2013/niaid-25.htm