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Azerbaijan and Tajikistan as malaria-free
April 7 , 2023
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- The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Azerbaijan and Tajikistan as malaria-free.
- The certification follows a sustained, century-long effort to stamp out the disease by the two countries.
- Certification of malaria elimination is the official recognition by WHO of a country’s malaria-free status.
- For this status, the chain of indigenous malaria transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes has been interrupted nationwide for at least the past three consecutive years.
- Azerbaijan detected its last case of locally transmitted Plasmodium vivax (P.vivax) malaria in 2012 and Tajikistan in 2014.
- With this announcement, a total of 41 countries and 1 territory have been certified as malaria-free by WHO.
- It includes 21 countries only from the European Region.
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