Health Monitoring – Rondonia State Government holds a joint malaria eradication workshop in the capital – Rondonia State Government

WWith representatives from almost all municipalities in Rondônia, the state government inaugurated on Tuesday (21) the Joint Malaria Elimination Workshop, a program that is part of the National Malaria Elimination Plan (PNEM), whose goal is to define targets and strategies for malaria elimination. disease in Brazil by 2035

They were present at the opening ceremony, on Governor Jorge Teixeira Street, No. 491; District – Nossa Serra das Grasas, in Porto Velho, representatives of the Ministry of Health (MS), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the Council of Municipal Health Trustees (Consems), the Center for Research in Tropical Medicine (Cepem), the Council Regional medicine and technicians from Agevisa. Through the State Health Surveillance Agency (Agevisa).

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The goal is to eliminate malaria in Brazil by 2035, because according to researcher Mauro Shojiro Tada, “in Rondonia, it is possible to reach the goal much earlier.” A pioneer in malaria research in Rondonia, he stated that it is possible to eradicate the disease in Rondonia before the deadline set by MAS and Obas. According to him, “In 1988, the golden age of mining on the Madeira River, Rondonia had half the malaria cases in Brazil, and it reached a quarter of the cases in all of Latin America. That year, 300,000 cases of the disease were counted. Today, we can say that we are at a residual level of 6 to 7 thousand cases per year.”

According to the head of the Center for Dengue and Malaria for Environmental Health Monitoring, Cesarino Junior Lima Abregio, “The state government has adopted the proposed targets for malaria elimination and with integration between all municipalities, it will be possible to strengthen actions with vulnerable populations, such as in border areas, indigenous areas, mining and invasions.” Etc. The workshop continues until Friday (24th).

This workshop has already been held in several other Amazonian countries where malaria is endemic, including Bolivia, with the participation of representatives from Latin American and Caribbean countries. According to the State Coordinator of the Malaria Surveillance and Control Programme, Walder France, associated with the environmental monitoring company Agevisa, the National Malaria Elimination Plan (PNEM) consists of four phases with intermediate milestones.

The plan envisages achieving the following goals: fewer than 68,000 malaria cases by 2025; Absence of malaria transmission Plasmodium falciparum (protozoan parasite); Fewer than 14,000 local malaria cases, i.e. cases in the area where you live, by 2030; “Eliminate the disease by 2035. From this workshop we will have further elements to identify the main barriers to malaria elimination and develop strategies to overcome these barriers,” explained Valdir France.

The General Director of Agevisa, Gilvander Gregorio de Lima, highlighted the technical quality of the event, as the lectures will be given “by experts who have information about the disease, its causes and how it can be prevented and treated.” He stressed the commitment and concluded his speech by saying: “The government must make its contribution in every way.” possible in the plan to eradicate this disease.