September 2011

Regional meeting on malaria elimination held in Central Asia

The Tajikistan Ministry of Health recently hosted a conference on the elimination of malaria with representatives and experts from other Central Asian countries. The conference aims were to analyze the region’s progress towards elimination and discuss further steps needed to achieve elimination by 2015, which was declared in 2005 through The Tashkent Declaration on Malaria Elimination. A resolution was agreed upon for: strengthened cross-border cooperation; timely exchange of information on malaria especially in border areas; and, for regular meetings on analyzing experiences on eliminating and preventing the reintroduction of malaria.