{"id":7164,"date":"2019-01-30T21:23:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2019-01-30T21:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:24:45","slug":"uzbekistan-declared-malaria-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/uzbekistan-declared-malaria-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan declared malaria free"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/strong>hen Uzbekistan earned WHO certification as malaria free, it was a major achievement in global health that demonstrates what is possible when partners coordinate preventive efforts, the Global Fund said today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary outcome,\u201d said Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund. \u201cWe applaud Uzbekistan\u2019s success, and we are delighted that the Global Fund was able to contribute to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Feeding female Anopheles mosquito. Photo: James Gathany (CDC Public Health Library)<\/p><\/div>\n

Malaria was once rampant in Uzbekistan. In 1943, one tenth of the population were infected. A half-century before that, the disease killed nearly 40,000 people in the nation\u2019s capital district alone. Following World War II, the government concentrated on eliminating malaria, only to see its success in the early 1960s reversed by a devastating resurgence.<\/p>\n

In recent years, the Global Fund has supported Uzbekistan\u2019s efforts in fighting malaria through an innovative results-based approach, with direct support to Uzbekistan and a partnership agreement with WHO to align financing with the achievement of measurable outcomes on the pathway to elimination.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have achieved remarkable progress against malaria in Central Asia,\u201d said Sands. \u201cIt\u2019s a great example of commitment and a sustainable approach. The Global Fund has invested in this region for over a decade. With committed partners, every investment can achieve great value.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turkmenistan was certified as free of malaria in 2010, Armenia in 2011, Kyrgyzstan in 2016 and now Uzbekistan in 2018.<\/p>\n

Sands added that, globally, there are currently two notable tracks on malaria. A significant number of countries are eliminating malaria. But in other countries, malaria rates are increasing, and there is greater drug and insecticide resistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cA child dies of malaria every two minutes,\u201d said Sands. \u201cWe have to stop that, enabling elimination where possible, and reducing malaria as much as we can in the hardest-hit countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Published in<\/strong> International Pest Control \u2013 January\/February 2019 issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Uzbekistan earned WHO certification as malaria free, it was a major achievement in global health that demonstrates what is possible when partners coordinate preventive efforts, the Global Fund said today. \u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary outcome,\u201d said Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund. \u201cWe applaud Uzbekistan\u2019s success, and we are delighted that the Global […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3,157,761,73],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/18746_300.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7170,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions\/7170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}