Today, country leaders and senior officials from across Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas announced new political and financial commitments to accelerate the global fight towards eliminating malaria - a disease that claims the life of a child every two minutes and puts half the world at risk.

From June 28-30, 2017 in Lao Plaza Hotel, Vientiane, the Department of Communicable Disease Control (DCDC), Ministry of Health, Lao PDR organized the Regional Workshop o­n orienting health systems towards effective control and elimination of malaria in the GMS.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has suggested Vietnam and Laos step up medical cooperation with more diverse and effective activities in the time ahead to match with the special solidarity between the two countries.

International Medical Development JSC of Vietnam's TH Group will join hands with Japan's International Total Engineering Corporation (ITEC) to build a high-tech health care complex in Hanoi.

• Cross Border Collaboration is Key to Achieving Malaria Elimination Goals in Elimination 8 Countries (03/21/2017)
• A malaria-free Africa is within reach (02/24/2017)
• APMEN Newsletter in December 2016 (12/14/2016)
• Partners in the Greater Mekong Subregion mobilize around malaria elimination goal (11/28/2016)
• Health ministers adopt new plan for malaria elimination in the Americas (09/30/2016)