Malaria is increasing in Indigenous and artisanal mining areas in the Brazilian Amazon, impacting the Yanomami people. Correspondence from marciacastrorj HarvardChanSPH and Cassio Peterka, Ministry of Health, Brazil
In 2015, Brazil received the Malaria Champions of the Americas Award from the Pan American Health Organization. That same year, the National Malaria Control Program launched a plan to eliminate. One year later, Brazil recorded the lowest number of malaria cases in 37 years , 99.9% of which were in the Amazon region. This trend suffered a setback in 2017, when around 231,000 cases were reported.
In 2019, when President Bolsonaro started his four-year term, major changes in the Ministry of Health affected malaria control. The NMCP was merged into a division that also oversaw 35 neglected diseases, all technical advisory groups were eliminated and there was no support to develop a strategic plan for malaria elimination.
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