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Uzbekistan wins its long fight against malaria, as global rates continue to rise

United Nations, Dec 12 (UNI) Uzbekistan’s success in becoming recognised as a malaria-free country by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is an “extraordinary outcome,” has said the Executive Director of the Global Fund, a UN-backed partnership to end malaria epidemics.
Malaria has a long and deadly history in Uzbekistan: in the late nineteenth century, the disease killed nearly 40,000 people in the capital district alone, and in 1943, one tenth of the population was infected. In the post-war years, the Uzbek Government concentrated on eliminating malaria, but the country was hit by a devastating resurgence in the early 1960s.
That trend has been reversed in recent years, with the Global Fund and WHO helping Uzbekistan to combat malaria, using an innovative results-based approach that put the country on the path to finally eliminating the disease in 2018.
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