Authored by staff at the University of Bristol, the WHO, and Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar, and published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, this new study estimates the global infection prevalence and incidence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 in 2016.
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世卫组织认证阿塞拜疆和塔吉克斯坦为无疟疾国家 共有42个国家或地区已实现无疟疾阶段性目标
WHO certifies Azerbaijan and Tajikistan as malaria-free A total of 42 countries or territories have reached the malaria-free milestone
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2023年3月29日 | 新闻稿
29 March 2023 | News release
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世界卫生组织（世卫组织）已认证阿塞拜疆和塔吉克斯坦已实现在其领土上消除疟疾的目标。
The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Azerbaijan and Tajikistan for achieving elimination of malaria in their territories.
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这一认证是在两国为消灭这种疾病进行了长达一个世纪的持续努力之后作出的。
The certification follows a sustained, century-long effort to stamp out the disease by the 2 countries.
“The people and governments of Azerbaijan and Tajikistan have worked long and hard to eliminate malaria,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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“它们的成就进一步证明，只要有适当的资源和政治承诺，消除疟疾是可能的。
“Their accomplishment is further proof that, with the right resources and political commitment, eliminating malaria is possible.
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我希望其他国家能够学习它们的经验”。
I hope that other countries can learn from their experience.”
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对消除疟疾的认证是世卫组织对一个国家达到无疟疾状态的正式承认。
Certification of malaria elimination is the official recognition by WHO of a country’s malaria-free status.
The certification is granted when a country has shown – with rigorous, credible evidence – that the chain of indigenous malaria transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes has been interrupted nationwide for at least the past three consecutive years.