The World Health Organization (WHO) released a press release announcing that China has been officially certified by the World Health Organization (WHO) to eliminate malaria On June 30
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The communique said it was a remarkable feat to reduce the number of malaria cases in China from 30 million in the 1940s to zero.
In a press release, WHO Director-General Tedros Tedros congratulated China on eliminating malaria.
“China’s success has not come easily, mainly because of decades of continuous human rights prevention and control,” Tedros said.
“China’s relentless efforts to achieve this important milestone show that malaria, one of the great public health challenges, can be overcome with strong political commitment and strengthening human health systems,” said Kasai, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific.
China’s achievements bring the Western Pacific closer to eliminating malaria.”
According to WHO standards, a ** or region without indigenous malaria cases for three consecutive years must establish an effective rapid malaria detection and monitoring system, and develop a malaria prevention and control plan to be certified for malaria elimination.
China has reported no local primary malaria cases for four consecutive years since 2017, and officially applied to the World Health Organization for malaria eradication certification last year.
In a press release, WHO also detailed China’s approach and experience in eliminating malaria.
Chinese scientists discovered and extracted artemisinin from Chinese herbal medicine. Artemisinin combination therapy is currently the most effective antimalarial drug.
Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
China is also one of the first countries to use insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria.
In addition, China has established the national network reporting system of infectious diseases such as malaria and malaria laboratory testing network, improve the system of monitoring malaria vector surveillance and parasite resistance, formulated the “clues to track, counting the source” strategy, explore summed up malaria report, investigation and disposition of “1-3-7″ working mode and the border areas of “3 + 1 line”.
The “1-3-7″ mode, which means case reporting within one day, case review and redeployment within three days, and epidemic site investigation and disposal within seven days, has become the global malaria eradication mode and has been formally written into WHO technical documents for global promotion and application.
Pedro Alonso, Director of the Global Malaria Programme of the World Health Organization, spoke highly of China’s achievements and experience in eliminating malaria.
“For decades, China has been making unremitting efforts to explore and achieve tangible results, and has had an important impact on the global fight against malaria,” he said.
Exploration and innovation by the Chinese government and people has accelerated the pace of malaria eradication.”
In 2019, there were about 229 million malaria cases and 409,000 deaths worldwide, according to WHO.
The WHO African Region accounts for more than 90 per cent of malaria cases and deaths globally.
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Post time: Jul-12-2021