
Asia-Pacific Regional Centre - Australia
Malaria elimination in the Asia-Pacific faces two major challenges. First, the emergence and spread of multidrug resistant falciparum malaria, including parasites resistant to artemisinin, which are spreading beyond their epicentre in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Second, a rising burden of Plasmodium vivax, which is now the predominant species causing malaria across much of the region.