Malaria-free certification was granted to both Azerbaijan and Tajikistan by the WHO last week, signalling the successful completion of ‘a sustained, century-long effort to stamp out the disease’. Elimination is dependent on three consecutive years with no indigenous transmission and the capability to prevent its re-establishment. Tajikistan’s last (P. vivax) malaria case was registered in 2014, Azerbaijan’s two years before that. Read more
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