webfact Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Thailand aims to rid country of malaria by 2024BANGKOK, 25 April 2016 (NNT) - The Ministry of Public Health is accelerating its malaria eradication campaign under the government's Pracharat Model.Public Health Minister Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn has affirmed his ministry’s commitment to realize the global agenda by the World Health Organization to “End Malaria for Good” and announced Thailand’s goal of eradicating malaria from the country by the year 2024.Malaria cases worldwide have dropped steadily since 2000 by more than 75% in 55 countries worldwide. In Thailand, the number of malaria patients has decreased from 150,000 cases in 2000 to 24,850 in 2015, marking an 85% decrease with the remaining cases concentrated along the border.The Ministry of Public Health has announced its malaria eradication plan for 2017 to 2026. The plan consists of developing technology, innovation and appropriate measures to eliminate malaria; increasing cooperation between partners; and empowering the public with healthy habits that prevent malaria. The plan has a total budget of 2.283 billion baht.-- NNT 2016-04-25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clockman Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 (edited) More promises, same as road deaths.! Is that the same year that you can flush toilet paper, instead putting it in the basket? Edited April 25, 2016 by clockman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siliconvalley Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Wow. Let them eat cake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 A noble effort would be need to eradicate Malaria by 2024 , the female being the carrier mosquito changes it's strain every three months , possibly the latest from Australia is the biology attack , where the male is made impotent , then releasing them into the air, another is a new vaccination that lasts two years, both worth looking at, however Thailand needs to clean up its waterways, rubbish lying around making breeding grounds for malaria, a lot needs to be done to achieve this target........................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinisaan Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 And by 2025 all Thais speak perfect English...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhys Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Bless those Harding working RNs Ph.D educated abroad, forced by the Established old guard to follow the Precede Model and come up with this... Kudos for the MPH MDs for copying this from a medical journal... Had to say it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhizBang Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 And by 2025 all Thais speak perfect English...... In your dreams. Ditto for eradicating malaria, by 2024 or whenever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesetat2013 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 I'm curious! Why don't they just come up with a cure for it? They have already developed so many cures. At least, they claimed to have anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torpedo1970 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 i believe them, after all they are Thai and they found a cure for Ebola Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewolf99 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Meanwhile over the border in Cambodia..... http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/96295 ..They will need a very big net to stop them coming over the border - or maybe there will be new Visa requirements by then....for insects as well as people with blue eyes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brer Fox Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 A noble effort would be need to eradicate Malaria by 2024 , the female being the carrier mosquito changes it's strain every three months , possibly the latest from Australia is the biology attack , where the male is made impotent , then releasing them into the air, another is a new vaccination that lasts two years, both worth looking at, however Thailand needs to clean up its waterways, rubbish lying around making breeding grounds for malaria, a lot needs to be done to achieve this target........................ All sensible thoughts and comments. But falling on deaf ears I am afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgjackson69 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 It is a noble and lofty goal...but I do not see how it can be accomplished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy chappie Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 They've got more chance of eradicating ladyboys.more piff propaganda from the amazing Thailand waffle machine.when they come up with there 'numbers' I think they just sit there and roll some dice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acharn Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 I'm curious! Why don't they just come up with a cure for it? They have already developed so many cures. At least, they claimed to have anyway! Why can't they come up with a cure for yellow fever? Why can't they come up with a cure for rabies? Why can't they come up with a cure for tetanus? Why can't they come up with a cure for rhinovirus (common cold)? Why can't they come up with a cure for cancer? Peter Fleming accidentally stumbled across a yeast that produces a chemical that kills a lot of different types of bacteria. I wouldn't want to go back to the days before that (and when I was a kid penicillin was not yet universally available). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalf12 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Just like all the other miracle cures Thailand has come up with in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansnl Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Acharn, the reason why for many, not all, illnesses there is no remedy, might be because there is no profit in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jak2002003 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Another promise.. another crackdown... makes them sound professional and impressive to most of the Thai population. But nothing will happen.. and just to stop any people starting to ask why these promises and crackdowns are not happening they will come up with another super headline NEW CRACKDOWN on something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poohy Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 These promises are becoming nearly as common as overturned buses here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKKdreaming Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Do these Ministers have a number of stupid reports that they must put out each month , saying how they will do this and that ? Minister of propaganda today says the Caviar production will double , blah blah blah...... Malaria , Dengue , etc are a worldwide problem and millions are being spent to find a cure But its a moving target as the Mosquitoes change or become immune to the spray they use. I think a better way for the Minister would be to tell the people positive steps they could do today , standing water etc...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HLover Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Meanwhile over the border in Cambodia..... http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/96295 ..They will need a very big net to stop them coming over the border - or maybe there will be new Visa requirements by then....for insects as well as people with blue eyes.... Maybe they will build a wall? Seems to be the go to solution for border issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waldroj Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Who knows best? See http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/summary/en/index5.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lujanit Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 I'm curious! Why don't they just come up with a cure for it? They have already developed so many cures. At least, they claimed to have anyway! Why can't they come up with a cure for yellow fever? Why can't they come up with a cure for rabies? Why can't they come up with a cure for tetanus? Why can't they come up with a cure for rhinovirus (common cold)? Why can't they come up with a cure for cancer? Peter Fleming accidentally stumbled across a yeast that produces a chemical that kills a lot of different types of bacteria. I wouldn't want to go back to the days before that (and when I was a kid penicillin was not yet universally available). Peter Fleming? Which Peter fleming? Missionary. Tennis player? Writer? Bike racer? Try Sir Alexander Fleming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 The Ministry of Public Health would do better to donate the 2.283 billion baht to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, a project funded by GlaxoSmithKline and donors led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over 30 years to develop the Mosquirix vaccine. It has been endorsed last year by the European drugs regulator and the World Health Organization. Perhaps to be used in Africa this year. But Thailand, the Hub of Medical Miracles, wouldn’t receive any accolades. For the sake of reputation, better for the Ministry to reinvent medical technology and take credit for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook23 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Meanwhile over the border in Cambodia..... http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/96295 ..They will need a very big net to stop them coming over the border - or maybe there will be new Visa requirements by then....for insects as well as people with blue eyes.... Maybe they will build a wall? Seems to be the go to solution for border issues. My source in the Thai Intelligence told me they have a black-op site where they train mosquitos to only suck blood from burmese, khmens and falangs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangon04 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 (edited) All Thai mosquitos will be "urged" to carry Dengue instead. Foreign mosquitos will be banned from entering Thai airspace unless they get a work permit and a medical certificate.. Edited April 26, 2016 by bangon04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudcrab Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 (edited) DDT was very, very effective. But the then 'New Age' Nazis decided that it should be banned because it allegedly caused a soft shell syndrome on an eagle egg somewhere. The eagle egg shells were saved but hundreds of millions of people have perished since. Edited April 26, 2016 by Mudcrab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 They will rid Thailand of toutists before 2020... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie Dye Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 For Malaria I read farang! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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