Progress towards elimination in Malaysia

Overview

This case study examines the strategies and policies carried out by the Malaysian National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and the ensuing dramatic decline in malaria cases nationally since 1991. It documents the history of malaria in the country and the control interventions that have been successfully implemented. 

It also highlights current strategies to reach the country’s national target of eliminating malaria by 2020. Progress towards these goals has been accelerated by the NMCP's collaboration with private sector plantations in Sabah State on surveillance and vector control. Lessons for countries engaged in elimination are distilled.

The case study is part of a series of 10 publications on malaria elimination produced by the WHO Global Malaria Programme and the Global Health Group at the University of California in San Francisco with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this series, national malaria control programmes and researchers generate new evidence about what works – and what does not – for reaching and sustaining zero malaria transmission.

Other reports have documented the malaria elimination process in Bhutan, Cape Verde, Mauritius, the Phillipines, the Island of Reunion, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Turkmenistan.