Sustaining progress towards malaria elimination by 2025: Lessons from Bhutan & Timor-Leste.

In Asia Pacific, several nations that were part of the World Health Organization's initiative to eliminate malaria by 2020 or the E2020 Initiative reported being off-track. The COVID-19 pandemic further strained health systems and has the potential to stall the efforts and reverse earlier progress made towards the fight against malaria. These nations have since recommitted to eliminating malaria by 2025, in a renewed E2025 Initiative.

From malaria control to elimination within a decade: lessons learned from Timor Leste, a newly independent country.

Background: Timor Leste has made remarkable progress from malaria control to malaria elimination in a span of 10 years during which organized malaria control efforts were instituted. The good practices and possible factors that have contributed to the remarkable transition from malaria control to elimination in a newly independent country devastated by civil unrest which left the entire administrative structure including the health sector in a disrupted non-functional state are highlighted.

Methods: Data from the National Malaria Control Programme were reviewed.

Evidence-based malaria control in Timor Leste from 2006 to 2012.

Background: Malaria has been a major public health problem in the newly established Democratic Republic of Timor Leste with over 200,000 cases being reported in 2006 and 2007. The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) was established in 2003. The progress made in malaria control in Timor Leste is reported.