The Ministry of Health has announced plans to review, amend, and supplement professional guidelines to ensure nationwide implementation and assess the National Strategy for Malaria Prevention, Control, and Elimination by 2020.

Doctors at Hanoi's Bạch Mai Hospital have warned of the risk of malaria from Africa as the hospital's Centre for Tropical Diseases is treating two malaria patients who returned from Angola recently.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases has reported that the unit has received and treated two imported cases of severe malaria.

Vietnam has set a target to eliminate malaria by 2030, since it has recently achieved remarkable results in preventing and combating the dangerous tropical disease.

More than 20 years ago, Ngo Giang Lien visited Khanh Hoa to conduct research on mosquitoes, later returning with malaria. But it was a trip that would ultimately make a difference in people's lives. 

 Diagnosing malaria may soon be as easy taking a simple breath test, according to researchers.

 Deaths from malaria in Angola this year look set to outstrip 2015 as a health crisis that includes one of the country's worst yellow fever outbreaks in decades spreads,

 A parasitic-worm-killing drug, whose discovery won the Nobel prize, may also cut cases of malaria, say researchers.

 A new method of applying insecticide to netting has proved 100% effective against some strains of mosquito, an international study reports.

 UN officials on Thursday said that much more is needed to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths a year from malaria while financing has increased substantially and enabled great progress in the fight against the disease.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Around 90 Vietnamese labourers have been hospitalised with malaria during the past three months after returning from guest worker programmes in Africa.