Eliminating malaria in South-East Asia
In spite of significant advances, malaria remains a significant health problem and a major threat to socio-economic development in South-East Asia. Member countries, with WHO support, are aiming to reduce malaria cases and deaths by 75% by 2015 (from 2000) and contain resistance to the anti-malarial drug artemisinin, with the long-term goal of eliminating the disease. Means to achieve this include promoting high-level regional political collaboration, finding mechanisms to the financial gap, expanding access to quality medicines and technologies, ensuring universal coverage of key malaria interventions in priority areas, and accelerating research and development .
Malaria situation and its control in the WHO South-East Asia Region