[Monitoring and assessment of information-and-education programs within the framework of the project "Malaria Control in Kyrgyzstan"].

The level of the population's knowledge and behavior of the prevention of malaria is much higher in the south of Kyrgyzstan than in the north of the country and has a significant correlation with the frequency of performed actions (to obtain information by one person twice times or more). The findings may lead to the conclusion that the information education campaign to prevent malaria was successful. Multiple presentation of information to the population should be considered to be effective.

[Evaluation of the efficiency of medical staff's knowledge in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of malaria].

To define the capacity andreadiness of the health care system of Kyrgyzstan to ensure transition of malaria control to elimination in 2005-2007, health administrators scheduled and educated 2089 public health specialists in the problem of management, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of malaria, followed by their questioning. Areas at high risk for malaria transmission and those with local malaria foci, such as the Kadamzhaisky, Batkensky, Alamedinsky, Sokuluksky, and Issyk-Atinsky Districts and the city of Bishkek, were selected for polling. A research agency developed 5 structured questionnaires to interview respondents.

[An outbreak of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Kyrghyzstan].

Malaria was not notified in the republic in 1960 to 1982, with exception of 1963 where one case of imported malaria was identified. Twenty-four cases of locally transmitted malaria were detected, 11 of them being registered in the Batken district, Osh Region, contiguous with Tadjikistan and Uzbekistan. In 1981 to 2000, a total of 101 cases of malaria were notified, in 2001 there was an increase in cases of malaria to 136, while in 2002, a total of 2744 cases of malaria were registered mainly in the Fergana valley.