Malaria is on the decline in Cambodia - World Watch

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Larry Habegger
Special to The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)

Efforts to control malaria in Cambodia have shown great success, reducing the number of cases from 100,000 in 2006 to 54,000 in 2008 and cutting the death rate in half, from 396 in 2006 to 184 in 2008. But a drug-resistant strain is developing along the Thailand-Cambodia border that the World Health Organization and other health authorities hope to combat by introducing a new combination drug therapy. The success of the anti-malaria campaign can be attributed to drug therapies, public education and use of simple tools such as mosquito nets.