Fig. 1

Angola’s malaria statistics. Angola has seen a doubling in population since the turn of the century (grey, left axis), while the total number of cases (black line; left axis) has remained relatively constant in the same period and the number of deaths decreased by close to a third (blue line; right axis). Recent statistics from Angola’s NMCP show malaria cases roughly equally distributed among age classes (yellow-orange). The years of 2004–2008 marked a transition of drug policy from non-ACTs to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) (purple), concomitant with a decrease in total malaria deaths and a slight decrease in total cases, despite rapid population growth