Historic US aid project
A new USAID-funded malaria project in Myanmar will draw on prevention, treatment and containment models developed in Cambodia, and underscores the emergence of closer relations between Washington and Naypyitaw, health officials said yesterday. The US$24 million project will expand the effort to contain drug-resistant malaria, which began on the Cambodian-Thai border late last year, to Myanmar, health officials told the Post yesterday. The project will be implemented by University Research Corp, which oversees USAID-funded projects in about 40 countries and is a partner in the malaria containment effort here, they said. “This is our first USAID-funded project in Myanmar,” Dr Kheang Soy Ty, chief of URC’s malaria containment project in Cambodia, told the Post. The project will span five years and cover three countries – Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand, he added...
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