Thai-Myanmar Border: Malaria Epidemic Averted

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In eastern Myanmar, nearly 15% of children will die before their fifth birthday, with malaria causing more than a quarter of those deaths.

The Thai-Myanmar border is often described as an "epicenter" of drug-resistant malaria. Malaria prevalence (the proportion of the population with the disease at any time) among internally displaced people in eastern Myanmar is up to twenty times higher than across the border in Thailand.

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