ISLAMABAD – The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership has released its new strategies toward malaria elimination targets, an ambition aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are set to be implemented at the end of this year, saying China is on track to eradicate malaria by 2020.
This comes amid promising public health statistics which indicate that there has been a 58 percent reduction of malaria mortality, Xinhua reported. Complementing the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030, RBM’s Action and Investment to Defeat Malaria 2016-2030 comes at a critical juncture for the global fight against the potentially fatal disease.
“This is the first time that something like this has happened, as we want to show that the malaria community is working closely together to take on the challenges of the unfinished agenda,” said WHO Global Malaria Program Director Pedro Alonso. China, whose target is to eliminate malaria by 2020, has not only reported a dramatic decline in malaria cases over the last decades, but also played a pivotal role in global disease-control efforts.
According to experts, China, along with Cambodia and Vietnam, is set to eliminate malaria by 2020, while other countries of the Greater Mekong region are expected to eradicate the disease by 2025. China’s recent efforts together with unprecedented global achievements are a good starting point for WHO’s ambition to reduce malaria case incidence and deaths by 90 per cent while eliminating the disease in at least an additional 35 countries by 2030.
“This is the first time that something like this has happened, as we want to show that the malaria community is working closely together to take on the challenges of the unfinished agenda,” said WHO Global Malaria Program Director Pedro Alonso. China, whose target is to eliminate malaria by 2020, has not only reported a dramatic decline in malaria cases over the last decades, but also played a pivotal role in global disease-control efforts.
According to experts, China, along with Cambodia and Vietnam, is set to eliminate malaria by 2020, while other countries of the Greater Mekong region are expected to eradicate the disease by 2025. China’s recent efforts together with unprecedented global achievements are a good starting point for WHO’s ambition to reduce malaria case incidence and deaths by 90 per cent while eliminating the disease in at least an additional 35 countries by 2030.
