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World Malaria
Day 25 April 2012
Multisectoral
partnerships: sustain gains, save lives, invest in malaria.
 WHO South-East Asia Region, 1.3 billion
people are at risk of malaria, and it can be controlled only if all
sections of society are involved. Accordingly, our Regional theme for World
Malaria Day 2012 is “multisectoral partnerships: sustain gains, save lives,
invest in malaria.”
RD’s message Photo Essay Malaria in
SEA Factsheet
The status of drug resistance along
the Thailand-Myanmar border
 This issue
brief looks at the status of emerging antimalarial drug resistance along
the Thailand-Myanmar border and highlights the importance of scaling up
prevention and containment efforts. Artemisinin-based combination therapies
remain effective in the Greater Mekong sub-region but there is an urgent
need to contain drug-resistant parasites where they have emerged.
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Significant decrease in malaria
deaths: World Malaria Report 2011
 With
an estimated 28 million cases and 38 000 deaths in 2011, malaria remains a
significant public health problem in South-East Asia. However, malaria incidence and deaths
have decreased significantly in the last decade, according to the World
Malaria Report 2011. Globally, the
estimated incidence of malaria has reduced 17% between 2000 and 2010, and
malaria-specific mortality rates by 26%.
This is attributed to increased availability of long-lasting
insecticidal nets, indoor- residual spraying, better access to diagnostic
testing, and effective treatment with artemisinin-based combination
therapies (ACTs). Increasing drug
resistance however, is a challenge. Resistance to artemisinins – a vital
component of drugs used in the treatment of the most dangerous types of
malaria – has been reported in a growing number of countries in South-East Asia.
World Malaria Report Summary
Report [PDF 3.4 MB]
UN
Secretary-General’s Message
 “The global
campaign against malaria has shown what is possible when the international
community joins forces on multiple fronts to tackle a disease that takes
its heaviest toll on poor and underprivileged populations… The advances of
recent years show that the battle
against malaria can be won.”
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon More
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Director-General's
Message
 The findings in the World Malaria Report
2011 show that we are making significant and durable progress in battling a
major public health problem. Coverage of at-risk populations with malaria
prevention and control measures increased again in 2010, and resulted in a
further decline in estimated malaria cases and deaths. And the malaria map
continues to shrink.
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"Malaria
defeated the international community many years ago. We cannot allow this
to happen again. A single global action plan for malaria control, that
enjoys Partnership-wide support, is a strong factor for success." 
"I
believe that if you show people a problem, and then you show them the
solution, they will be moved to act. The Global Malaria Action Plan lays
out an achievable blueprint for fighting malaria – now it's time for the
world to take action."
