Vietnam: Malaria

(asked on 1st November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the increasing number of drug-resistant malaria cases in Vietnam and of the growing prevalence of anti-malarial drug resistance in the Greater Mekong Region.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 6th November 2017

The World Health Organisation has a strong presence in the Greater Mekong Sub Region (including Vietnam): it continuously works with national governments to assess multidrug resistance and support policy responses. DFID supports the WHO in this essential work. Despite the real concern about drug resistance in Vietnam and the Sub Region, there has been a major decline in the rate of malaria cases and deaths. In Vietnam, between 2013 and 2015, the reported cases declined from 17,128 to 9,331 cases and reported deaths from 6 to 3.

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