T he fight to end malaria is facing a perfect storm of challenges . A wave of cuts to global health budgets in 2025 has impacted both our ability to ensure lifesaving tools reach those who need them – and our ability to develop new ones. Mosquitos and the malaria parasite have continued to build resistance to certain malaria interventions which we’ve relied on for years. Climate change is shifting the habitats for some malaria transmitting mosquitoes, making them harder to track, made worse by extreme weather events. And conflict, rising across the globe, is creating enormous upheaval to public health measures designed to protect against malaria. All this comes off the back of six years of rising malaria cases since the Covid-19 pandemic to an all-time high of 282 million in 2024, as well as rising case "incidence" [the number of cases per 1,000 people at risk]. Similarly, we’ve seen the number of people dying from malaria rise to 610,000 in 2024 – the highest since 2020.…