Malaria control and elimination activities have been implemented at various levels, with a focus on health facility catchment areas. Laos has made significant progress in reducing malaria ...

Malaria was once the leading cause of death in Laos but now it is slowly being eliminated due to improvements in infrastructure and the introduction of combination drug therapy. Al Jazeera drove ...

Study: Malaria outbreak in Laos driven by a selective sweep for Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 R539T mutants: a genetic epidemiology analysis. Image Credit: PPK_studio / Shutterstock.com Plasmodium ...

She praised Laos’ significant progress, noting that malaria cases had dropped from about 462,000 in 1997 to just over 2,300 in 2022, driven by improved testing, treatment and surveillance.

REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Multidrug-resistant malaria superbugs have taken hold in parts of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, threatening to undermine progress against ...

VIENTIANE, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Laos has confirmed that it will cooperate with other nations in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) in a bid to eliminate malaria in the country by 2030. However, the ...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Over the past year, Laos' Ministry of Health has focused its efforts on malaria prevention and control, as well as health education campaigns, in at-risk provinces.