Eliminating malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion
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The Greater Mekong Subregion is on track to eliminate malaria by 2030. How did this region become an exemplary model for beating malaria for good?
More than 15 years ago, resistance to potent antimalarial drugs known as artemisinins was first detected on the border of Thailand and Cambodia, raising global fears that malaria treatments might become ineffective. Today, the news from the GMS is dramatically different: the region is now on track to eliminate malaria by 2030. We explore how this dramatic turnaround in fortune is being achieved.
