In recent years, the effort of malaria control of Central Vietnam-West Highlands contributed to decrease the rate of malaria morbidity and mortality, no malaria outbreak occurred. The malaria control program achieved some of targets of national strategy o­n malaria control and elimination in Viet Nam in the period of 2011-2020 and orientation to 2030.

Under the direction of the Ministry of Health and with the financial support ofthe Asian Development Bank (ADB) Project o­n malaria prevention; in order to achieve the ADB Project objectives and contribute in reducing the burden of malaria, the Project Management Unit of IMPE Quy Nhon had appointed the mission team to conduct the epidemiological surveillance in Cu Jut District, Dak Nong province.

In recent years, the rates of malaria morbidity (malaria patients, malaria parasites) and malaria mortality have tended to decrease low nationwide, but malaria still exists in uncontrollable mobilised population groups in West-Highlands, Central and Southeast (free migrants, forest goers, mountain-field doers, etc.). In order to effectively prevent and eliminate malaria, it is necessary to grasp the characteristics of malaria infection in these groups.

National malaria elimination programmes should be evaluated at regular intervals for compliance with the targets and objectives to be achieved. Parameters should be established to monitor and evaluate all programme areas, with a focus o­n four key issues:

Key interventions are aimed at guiding regional- and country-level actions to eliminate malaria in the GMS context, with the proposed elimination strategy based o­n the following three key interventions and two support elements. The three key interventions are:

• Strategy for Malaria Elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion (2015-2030) (Part 1) (01/19/2016)
• Surveillance of malaria epidemiology in Cu Jut district, Dak Nong province in 2015 (12/23/2015)
• Malaysia deforestation liked to human cases of monkey malaria (12/21/2015)
• Relapsing infections could challenge malaria eradication (11/10/2015)
• Climate change contributing to the prevalance of malaria in Malawi (08/28/2015)