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The Leaders’ Dashboard was developed in 2015 to track progress and identify areas requiring attention, while allowing visibility of progress at national and regional levels. A revamp in 2024 focused on illustrating the evolution of malaria elimination in the region and improving the granularity of the current indicators. As part of this process, APLMA carried out multiple consultations and feedback sessions with diverse stakeholders, including national programmes and leading regional experts.
This year’s report highlights the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) dashboard that was developed to provide a comprehensive look at a region, primarily containing data on the region’s epidemiology and policies. The APLMA Dashboard was further used to generate a monthly series of regional and country overviews, together with analyses of key thematic areas including climate change, gender equality, diversity, and social inclusion (GEDSI), and border malaria.
APLMA Dashboard and its Applications
In 2025, the successful development of the GEDSI and Climate Change dashboards, together with the Sandbox tool, marked a major milestone in the development of APLMA’s data offerings. Together with the existing thematic dashboards (Border Malaria and Financing), they collectively:
- Consolidate data on specific areas key to malaria elimination
- Offer key insights on significant thematic milestones and gaps
- Enable data-driven decision-making in accelerating malaria elimination efforts in the region
In 2026, the GMS dashboard was developed to provide a comprehensive look at a region, primarily containing data on the region’s epidemiology and policies, together with funding figures across grant cycles. Developed in conjunction with the 10th Asia Pacific Leaders’ Summit on Malaria Elimination, it marked APLMA’s first launch of a region-specific, tailored dashboard. The GMS dashboard was made publicly accessible at the event’s website in the immediate period before and after it took place.
Building on the depth and breadth of data now available, a series of case studies were published monthly over a six-month period, supported by key facts and figures across the dashboards. The articles’ subjects were chosen for thematic alignment with significant dates occurring from month to month:
- January: "Integrated Policy Responses: Shaping Vanuatu’s Approach Towards Eliminating Malaria" (In commemoration of World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day)
- February: "Elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion"
- March: "Malaria Elimination in Pregnant Women" (In commemoration of International Women’s Day)
- April: "Plasmodium knowlesi in Southeast Asia" (In commemoration of World Malaria Day)
- May: "Malaria and Climate in Bangladesh"
- June: "Malaria in Papua New Guinea: Current Landscape and A Strengthened Push Towards Elimination"
Of the Community, By the Community, For the Community
The APLMA Dashboard serves as a community-centric repository of data that aims to foster greater collaboration and knowledge sharing. APLMA would like to invite interested collaborators to reach out to us at https://www.aplma.org/contact. We appreciate feedback from partners on the various existing thematic areas like financing for malaria elimination, border malaria, GEDSI, climate change, and One Health – and remain open to suggestions on new areas we could explore in later development phases.
Annex: Insights from the Asia Pacific Region
4,396,526 indigenous cases in 2024 ensured the Asia Pacific region avoided a third consecutive year of increasing cases, with cases falling 8.4% from 2023. That same year, 458 reported deaths among the region’s 22 countries marked an 18.5% drop from 562 in 2023 – a similar improvement in circumstances after 2 consecutive years of rising deaths attributed to malaria.
General reductions in Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum, and mixed cases were similarly observed that same year, on the back of significant case reductions in Pakistan, which saw nearly 640,000 fewer cases than the year before, and the Solomon Islands, with nearly 20,000 fewer cases.
Based on the results of a recent data collection exercise, the region’s National Malaria Programmes have adopted policy responses in line with the APLMA Malaria Elimination Roadmap priorities, indicating the presence of strong political will to ensure malaria is eliminated.
Read the full 2026 APLMA Dashboard Report and a summarised 4-pager below.
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