To summarize the activities of malaria control and elimination in 2023 and outline plans for malaria elimination in the future, the Institute of Malariology, Parasitology, and Entomology Quy Nhon (IMPE-QN) held the Conference on Summing-Up of Malaria Control and Elimination in Central Vietnam in 2023 on December 26th, 2023, in Quang Ngai City, Quang Ngai Province.
In the overall survey of all three communes, Anopheles maculatus predominated over the other species, with a total of 276 individuals. Out of the 16 collected species, four were malaria vectors, including the primary vectors Anopheles minimus and Anopheles dirus, as well as two secondary vectors, namely Anopheles aconitus and Anopheles maculatus.
In the context of an increase in malaria cases in the first 8 months of 2023 compared to the same period of 2022 in three communes (Khanh Thuong, Khanh Thanh, and Son Thai) of Khanh Vinh district, Khanh Hoa province, the Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology Quy Nhon has enhanced its support in containment of the disease.
Viet Nam is one of the countries at high-risk of malaria all over the world with large malaria-endemic areas. However, due to the suitable strategies for each malaria programme phase, and the Government's investment as well as the domestic and international support, the malaria-endemic areas has been significantly narrowed.
In the past few years, the malaria situation worldwide, in general, as well as in Viet Nam specifically, has significantly improved, reflected by the continuous reduction in annual morbidity and mortality. The fight against malaria has gone through multiple phases, with various control strategies. In 2011, the Government of Viet Nam officially approved the "National Strategy for Malaria Control and Elimination in the period 2011-2020 and orientation to 2030". This decision also set specific targets with different action programs, aiming at no province to be in the advanced malaria control phase by 2020 and malaria elimination for the whole country by 2030.