Study on current status of malaria and efficacy of control measures among migrants in one malaria endemic district in Central Highland of Vietnam
- Author:
Le Xuan Hung
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Malaria
- MeSH:
Malaria;
Therapeutics
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2005;10():54-56
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A study on the current status of malaria and the efficacy of interventions among migrants was carried out in one district with high malaria transmission in Central Highland - Vietnam from 2002-2004. The findings of the study showed that: The malaria prevalence of clinical and parasite were high in the migrant, especially among new comers (clinical rate: 5.2% and parasite rate:4.3%). These rates were higher than that in local people (clinical rate:5.0% and parasite rate: 3.1%) and were still high in the year 3 and decreasing after 3 years. The applied interventions for migrant were: strengthening of the health education, improvement of community health workers and they were effective. The prevalence and incidence of malaria were reduced from 3.9 to 0.65% and 45.3 to 28.1/1000 population, respectively, after 3 years. The malaria rate was reduced by 40-60% compared with that in the control group.
