Ministry presents five-year malaria strategy
With concerns mounting over the increasing appearance of drug resistant strains of the disease along the Thai border, an ambitious five-year plan to eliminate the deadly Plasmodium Falciparium malaria parasite in Cambodia was presented on 27 January by the Ministry of Health.
The Malaria Elimination Action Framework 2016-2020 (MEAF), with a proposed $141 million budget, aims to eliminate the parasite even in drug-resistant form by 2020 and reduce the incidence of malaria to less than one infection per 1,000 people.
