As Viet Nam approaches elimination, malaria has become rare or non-existent in settled, ethnic majority villages but persists in geographically remote areas inhabited by ethnic minorities. Malaria control is facing a lot of difficulties because of uncontrollable mobilized populations such as forest goers and border crossers. Behavior change of minority groups - to alert populations to need to seek prompt diagnosis and treatment from available services, and to comply with full course of treatment - is challenging and requires persistent efforts using multiple channels with involvement of Commune Health Workers and Community Malaria Action Team members. Here are two typical examples of such engagement in two malaria hotpots of Viet Nam - Lai Chau and Gia Lai.

Although malaria infections continue to fall, Myanmar and its neighbours remain a breeding ground for new and dangerous strains of the disease.

Prof. Tatem, Director of Flowminder, started working in 2008 o­n the first application of mobile operator data for any health or development purpose globally. In collaboration with the operator Zantel and together with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, mobile data were used to estimate the movements of malaria-infected people between Zanzibar and the Tanzanian mainland.

ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world's richest couple, Bill and Melinda Gates, are lending their support to global plans to eliminate malaria, which is back o­n the world's agenda after being abandoned as too ambitious in 1969.

Giving extra bed nets tochildrenweakened by lack of food could significantly curb child deaths frommalaria, according to a mathematical model revealed last month.

• The Hunt for Malaria: It Takes a Village to Stop a Deadly Disease (12/16/2015)
• Millennium development goal 6: 15 achievements on HIV and malaria (08/13/2015)
• Ethnic minorities associated with poverty and disease (07/14/2014)
• Drug-resistant malaria on the Cambodian border: a new health challenge (12/20/2013)
• Anti-malaria competition for ethnic minority in Khanh Vinh district, Khanh Hoa province (08/03/2011)