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Anti-Malarial Training: Aiming To Be Free From The Disease In 2030

As Myanmar has been gearing up anti-malarial tasks, the fatality rate from Malaria has reduced from 13 in 100,000 cases in 1990 to less than one in 2014. It was said by the deputy minister for health Dr. Thein Thein Htay, at the opening of training of trainers for VBDC Field staff malaria elimination (central level), held in Nay Pyi Taw, yesterday. Although, recent scale-up in prevention and control by the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) has helped achieve a significant decline, Malaria case in Myanmar is the highest in Mekong Sub-region with 152,195 reported malaria cases in 2015. Malaria in Myanmar is now largely concentrated among high-risk and hard-to-reach groups. Addressing this residual transmission of malaria is increasingly important as Myanmar responds to drug resistance and moves towards malaria elimination. In Myanmar, malaria is the first prioritized disease to combat and aims to reduce the diagnostic rate to less than one case in 2020 and to become a malaria free country in 2030. The 4-day training is attended by malaria specialist doctors, in-charge doctors and anti-malarial staff.

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