Source: Gia Lai Television

On the morning of April 28, the Gia Lai Provincial Center for Disease Control held a conference to review the 2024 activities and launch the 2025 activities of the project “Regional Initiative to Prevent and Eliminate Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria” for the 2024-2026 period.In 2024, the project was implemented in 98 communes across 17 districts, towns, and cities in Gia Lai Province, aiming to continue pushing back malaria, focusing on areas with heavy malaria transmission, artemisinin resistance, and high-risk groups; strengthening sustainable factors to prevent malaria resurgence and move towards elimination. According to statistics, the malaria incidence rate in the province dropped from 1.066 cases per 1,000 population in 2019 to 0.002 cases per 1,000 in 2024. The goal for 2025 is to continue reducing malaria, concentrating on high-transmission and drug-resistant areas and vulnerable populations.

At the conference, Professor Le Vu Anh, Chairman of the Vietnam Public Health Association, emphasized effective real-time interventions suited to the current context, highlighting the participation of private healthcare as an extended arm contributing to malaria prevention and elimination in endemic areas.

Participants discussed difficulties and obstacles in project implementation and proposed solutions to ensure timely progress and achievement of project goals, contributing to effective malaria control and eventual elimination in this province.