Myanmar National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination

Myanmar's National Strategic Plan for Intensifying Malaria Control and Accelerating Progress Towards Malaria Elimination, covering 2016 through 2020, which set the country's ultimate goal of eliminating Plasmodium falciparum malaria by 2025 and all forms of malaria by 2030. Under the plan Myanmar recorded an 80 percent reduction in confirmed malaria cases between 2011 and 2016, falling from 567,452 to 110,146 registered cases, alongside a 96 percent reduction in malaria-related deaths over the same period, a scale of improvement achieved through intensified case detection, vector control and access to artemisinin-based treatment across the country's malaria-endemic townships. Despite this progress, Myanmar continued to carry the highest malaria burden of the six countries making up the Greater Mekong Subregion, underscoring the scale of the challenge the strategic plan was designed to address as the country worked toward the region's shared elimination goals.