{"id":45451,"date":"2010-09-13T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/13\/armenia-expected-to-be-malaria-free-by-2011\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:17:00","slug":"armenia-expected-to-be-malaria-free-by-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/13\/armenia-expected-to-be-malaria-free-by-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Expected to be Malaria-Free by 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The number of reported cases of malaria in Europe and Central Asia has dropped dramatically in the last 15 years, according to a recently published World Health Organization (WHO) report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">According to WHO Regional Director for Europe Zsuzsanna Jakab, the number of reported cases went from over 90,000 in 1995 to 285 cases in 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Eliminating malaria from the region, according to WHO, is a realistic and attainable goal. Armenia and Turkmenistan are expected to attain malaria-free status by 2010\u20132011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Furthermore, the WHO European Region aims to interrupt the transmission of malaria and eliminate the disease from the remaining 6 countries affected by malaria by 2015: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of reported cases of&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[15522,12830,12831,15523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}