Malaysia

Located in Southeast Asia, Malaysia has had a prevention of re-establishment programme since 2020, The country presently has zero human indigenous cases of P. falciparum and P.vivax malaria since 2018. In 2022, 2,500 cases of simian malaria were detected, with a further 2,800 cases in 2023 leading to its certification of malaria elimination postponed by the WHO.  

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Malaysia’s malaria programme stratifies subnational areas such as districts or provinces, with its Ministry of Health currently using receptivity and importation risk as a new malaria stratification tool to measure the risk of malaria re-introduction.