The World Health Organization (WHO) said that Malaria, the mosquito-borne disease, claimed 438,000 lives in 2015, as insufficient funds is weakening the urge to fight it’s wreck on humanity.

According to ceoafrica, Malaria is a life-threatening blood disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans, through the bite of Anopheles mosquito, which spreads in human body when an infected mosquito bites a human and transmits the parasites which eventually multiply in the liver before infecting and destroying red blood cells.

Global progress on controlling malaria risks stalling due to an “urgent need” for more funding, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in its annual report on Tuesday that the number of new cases fell by 2% between 2010 and 2015, and mortality rates fell by 29% — 31% in the African region.

But globally there were still 212 million new cases and 429,000 deaths last year, and 43% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa were not protected by treated nets or indoor spraying as the WHO warned that “sustained and sufficient funding for malaria control is a serious challenge”.