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Malaria Death Count Drops to Just One in 2016
by Hannah Hawkins and Sek Odom | February 10, 2017

The number of malaria cases dropped by about 54 percent last year, with just one person dying from the mosquito-borne disease compared to 10 the previous year, according to the government’s latest annual malaria report.
There was a significant drop from 51,262 cases in 2015 to 23,6327 reported last year, according to data released by on Thursday by the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (CNM).
One malaria-prone province, Preah Vihear, has seen reported cases of the disease drop to zero, it said.

In a press release, the Ministry of Health attributed the success to last January’s roll out of the Cambodia Malaria Elimination Action Framework (2016-2020), which is part of the government’s larger goal of eliminating all malaria cases carried by the parasite’s two main species by 2025. The target for wiping out the most dangerous malaria-carrying parasite is 2020.

Malaria experts agreed the efforts had apparently started to pay off, but said other factors likely played a part...

Yves Bourny, country director for the Malaria Consortium, a nonprofit focusing on the prevention, control and treatment of the disease, said the goal was achievable—to an extent.
“Elimination of malaria is possible by 2020 or 2025, but in some provinces only,” he said in an email on Thursday. “It may take longer in other remote provinces where people have difficulties to access health services.”
He said a decrease in cases had been reported not just across Cambodia, but Southeast Asia as a whole...
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