Malaria

WHO hails Iran for containing Malaria disease

TEHRAN, Jan. 25 (MNA) – While praising Iran’s role in containing malaria disease, the Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom said that Iran has not registered any native cases of malaria for three consecutive years.

By: Faranak Bakhtiari

Iran taking final step toward malaria elimination

TEHRAN, Apr. 28 (MNA) – Iran has not had any indigenous cases of malaria for two years in a row, and if the country’s passes this year with no indigenous cases, the World Health Organization will grant it a certificate of malaria eradication, Ahmad Raeisi, head of the Malaria control department of the Ministry of Health, has stated.