Tehran Times There have been no cases of malaria reported in Iran since the past Iranian calendar year 1397 (started March 2018) until the third month of the current year (ended July 22), Ahmad Raeisi, head of the health ministrys malaria control and prevention bureau, has said. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria is a life-...

Tehran Times - Malaria is still a challenge in some parts of Iran, especially in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, said Dr. Christoph Hamelmann, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Iran. Sistan-Baluchestan is a big province though it has a scattered population. It borders Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, some diseases arent controlled ...

Iran has entered the malaria elimination phase, said Muhammad Mehdi Gouya, director general of communicable diseases at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention affiliated to the Health Ministry. The country has taken great strides in eliminating the disease and is one step closer to being declared malaria-free which will be a huge international ...

Bushehr, May 6, IRNA The UN Resident Coordinator in Iran Gary Lewis said the UNDP malaria control plan has acted more successfully than its global model, so can serve as a model for the world. Lewis told the World Malaria Day seminar that 53 years ago those suffering from malaria accounted for one third of the population and now the figure has ...

Geneva, April 23, IRNA -- The World Health Organization is calling on the global health community to urgently address significant gaps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria. Despite dramatic declines in malaria cases and deaths since 2000, more than half a million lives are still lost to this preventable disease each year, WHO ...

Once a public health hazard across the country, malaria is now mainly contained in 3 southeastern provinces of Sistan-Baluchistan, Hormuzgan and Kerman. As a national strategic policy, Iran has planned for, and is on track towards eliminatingfalciparum malariaby 2016 and all cases of malaria by 2025. Between 2000 and 2013, the total number of local ...