Asia Pacific leaders move towards eliminating Malaria by 2030

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2009 photo, patients suffering from malaria lie on the beds as they are treated at a hospital in Pailin, Cambodia. More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to combat the disease, a study said Tuesday, May 22, 2012. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

by Daniel Maxwell -30th November 2015

AT the recent East Asia Summit (EAS) in Malaysia, Asia Pacific leaders took an important step towards ridding the region of a disease which threatens more than two billion people and kills nearly 50,000 people annually, with the endorsement of a detailed plan to eliminate malaria in the Asia Pacific region by 2030.

Asia Pacific Leaders Move Towards Eliminating Malaria by 2030 by Thavam Ratna