Japan provides more assistance to Myanmar in fighting malaria
18/9/2008 17:47
The Japanese government has provided US$3.1 million more assistance to
Myanmar in fighting malaria under its grassroot grant assistance scheme, the
local Biweekly Eleven reported today.
Medicines for effective treatment,
medical care and prevention against the disease as well as mosquito nets will be
distributed to malaria-sensitive divisions and state of Bago, Magway
and
Rakhine under the Japanese grant aid agreed upon recently, it said
In
February 2007, the Japanese government had extended similar grant aid of
US$178,822 to Myanmar to help fight malaria in the country's Bago division
covering the region's eastern and western parts, according to earlier official
report.
Malaria is among the three diseases of national concern which Myanmar
has been encountering. The other two are HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis
(TB).
Myanmar treats the three diseases as priority with the main objectives
of reducing the morbidity and mortality in a bid to become no longer a public
problem and meet the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.
In
its prevention efforts against malaria, the Myanmar government has distributed
50,000 long lasting insecticidal nets annually since 2000 to hardly accessible
areas of national races with up to 400,000 existing bed nets also impregnated
with insecticide annually since then.
Xinhua
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