According to WHO, the work of eliminating malaria in China began in 1960s and 1950s, and the health authorities in China are committed to locating and stopping the spread of malaria by providing preventive antimalarial drugs to people at risk of malaria and providing treatment to patients. 1967, China started the "Project 523", which is a national research plan to find a new treatment for malaria. Artemisinin was finally discovered in1970s, and it is also the most effective antimalarial drug at present.
In the1980s, China became one of the first countries in the world to try to use insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent malaria, long before WHO suggested using mosquito nets to control malaria. By the end of 1990, the number of malaria cases in China had dropped to 1 17000, and the number of deaths had dropped by 95%.
With the support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, since 2003, China has strengthened training, staffing, laboratory equipment, drugs and mosquito control, further reducing the number of cases, thus reducing the number of cases to about 5,000 per year within 10. In 2020, after reporting zero local cases for four consecutive years, China applied for the certification of malaria elimination from WHO.
The Director-General of WHO congratulates the people of China for eradicating malaria.
WHO Director-General Tan Desai congratulated the people of China on eradicating malaria. Their success is hard-won, and it needs decades of targeted and sustained action. China has joined the ranks of more and more countries, showing the world that a malaria-free future is a feasible goal.
Ge Xijian, regional director of the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, said that China's unremitting efforts to achieve this important milestone show that a firm political commitment and strengthening the national health system can eliminate this disease, which was once a major public health problem. At present, 40 countries and regions around the world have obtained WHO malaria-free certification.
Refer to the above? Interface News-China has been certified by WHO to eliminate malaria, preventing imported cases from becoming a new challenge.