Despite effective artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), >240 million cases of malaria infection are reported annually resulting in >600,000 deaths. These numbers, although high, are a significant improvement on 2015 levels and represent some degree of success in the World Health Organisation "Global Technical Strategy (GST)" aimed at reducing the global burden of malaria in 2030 by 90% from 2015 levels. Whereas the reduction in malaria cases can be attributed to the early success of the GTS, the last 5 years has seen little change in infection rates and in some areas of the world the trend has even been reversed and infections have increased.