Kupang Post, 14/7/10
A workshop has been held in Kupang at which several facilitators of Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) worked with officials from the health services of NTT and the Kabupatens of Kupang, Alor and West Sumba in an effort to further reduce the incidence of malaria in NTT. The facilitators included Olivia Silalahi (UNICEF), Dr Ermi Ndoen (BScPH, Airlangga; MScPH, Griffith), Wempi Anggal, Acef Efendy and Oce Boymau (NTT Health Service). NTT Health Service head Bria Seran thanked UNICEF for the help it had given NTT in the area of malaria control. The meeting heard that malaria continued to be NTT’s principal health problem, though there had been some improvement. Dr Ndoen noted that before 2005 NTT had had Indonesia’s worst record for malaria, but now it was second worst (after Papua). Ms Silalahi said that there had been a decline in NTT’s annual malaria incidence (AMI[1]) rate from 145% in 2006 to 83% in 2008. She stressed the importance of a community based approach to the challenge of eradicating malaria.
[1] The article does not explain the precise meaning of AMI, nor how it is calculated (Ed.)
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