Introduction

Table of Contents   Introduction Thai-Burma Border Scaling Up Improving Access China-Burma Border India-Burma Border Advocacy Next Steps

Burma records the most malaria deaths of any country in Southeast Asia, but preventive and curative services remain unavailable to the most vulnerable populations living in ethnic areas along the borders of India, China and Thailand.

Since 2001 Planet Care/GHAP has increased the capacity of local ethnic health organizations to increase access for villagers to proven preventive and curative malaria interventions. Beginning with a modest pilot program among 1,800 Karen internally displaced peoples (IDPs) in four villages along the Thai-Burma border, effective malaria interventions now reach 60,000 villagers in about 140 villages along three of Burma's borders.

The details of the program along each border, described below, are modified according to local guidelines, but are based on over four years of experience reducing malaria transmission along the Thai border.

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