This report from the Communicable Disease-Malaria Program, Area of Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control, Pan American Health Organization is an epidemiological analysis of the situation of malaria in the Americas in 2008.

Comprehensive in coverage, the report presents detailed information on the Region as a whole and for individual countries.

The document is divided into a regional section and country chapters for a better analysis for each of the countries endemic for malaria in the region, with the exception of French Guiana.