Determine as on April 26 " National malaria day

Determine as on April 26 " National malaria day "
It is reported ' The intersection of reporter and Zheng dexterous) Ministry of Public Health held the news briefing to reveal, determined to determine as " national malaria day " on April 26 every year yesterday ,And require regional health authorities by first " National malaria day " Opportunity, organization launch prevent and cure the propaganda activity while being a series of.

It is reported, April 25 this year has already been confirmed as day of first world malaria, the theme is " malaria - -A kind of disease without national boundaries " . According to World Health Organization's report, about 40% population in the world receives the malaria threat, 350 million - 500 million people are infected with malaria every year, 1,100,000 people die of malaria, there are 3000 children because of suffering from malaria and losing the life every day.

It is introduced, prevented and cured actively by decades, the malaria patient of our country is reduced to present hundreds of thousands of people by more than 24 million people at the beginning of the seventies of the 20th century, the range of prevailing area shrinks greatly seriously, besides Yunnan, Hainan, every province has already dispelled the malignant malaria. But complicated because of the prevailing factor of malaria, spread fast, easy to be repeated, in addition some areas prevent and cure efforts to weaken to some extent in recent years, the fund input is insufficient, population flows frequently, some peripheral country's epidemic situations exert a great influence on border area of our country, our country some the intersection of area and the intersection of malaria and epidemic situation rebound, there is part that breaks out at the specific district. The national infectious disease network reports the system data reveal, the malaria annual report case counts 64,000 people rising to 2006 from 24,000 people in 2000. Drop slightly in 2007, 31 provinces (the district, city) in the whole country Report malaria 46988 of case together, drop 22.2% than 2006, report 0.36 morbidity / Wan, 15 cases of death. Our country still have more thanth 1182 counties of province at present ' Municipal or district) There are case reports, the onset is mainly concentrated on old, little, the poor area, including juncture areas of province such as the southwest border area, the mountain area of middle part of Hainan Province, Anhui, Henan, Hubei,etc.. The area of onset is mainly the countryside, it is mainly floating population that the urbanite has illness coming on, especially the person that came back from the hotspot.

It is reported, since 2005, our country has set up 64 national-level malaria monitoring points, the key area has also set up provincial monitoring point at county level. The Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Public Health arranged special funds of more than 24 million yuan through the transfer payment of state revenue in 2006, support some malaria to highly prevail in the province and implement malaria and prevent and cure the project. Since 2003, global fund first round of, fifth round of and sixth round of malaria project of applying to get that our country still succeeded in, the total fund is up to more than 62 million dollars. The whole country launch, generate heat the intersection of patient and blood examine plasmodium 4 million person, stop issues of the intersection of treatment and 363,000 people totally last year, 1,856,000 people prevail in season and prevent from taking medicine.



Determine as on April 26 " National malaria day "