Outside the box
The World Health Organization said that in the 1950s, Beijing began to study the location of malaria transmission and began to use preventive anti-malaria drugs to fight against it.
Country reduced Mosquito And step up the spraying of pesticides at home.
When looking for new treatments for malaria in the 1970s, China discovered the core compound of artemisinin-artemisinin combination therapy (ACTs), which is currently the most effective antimalarial drug.
In the 1980s, China was one of the first countries to extensively test the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent malaria. By 1988, more than 2.4 million pieces had been distributed nationwide.
By the end of 1990, the number of malaria cases in China had dropped to 117,000, and the death toll had dropped by 95%.
Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Project, said: “China’s ability to think outside the box has played a very good role in the country’s response to malaria, and it has also produced a significant chain reaction around the world.”
