National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) of Lao PDR: 2021 – 2025

The Lao PDR Ministry of Health is pleased to release the revised National Malaria Strategic Plan 2021-2025. The document is a roadmap that lays out the goals, objectives, strategies, parties responsible, coordination mechanisms, and costs to successfully reduce the burden of malaria in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) over the next five years and to prepare the country for national elimination by 2030. The 2021-2025 Strategy is the second part of a three-phase approach to eliminate all forms of malaria in Lao PDR and includes strengthened interventions targeted to the southern part of the country to reduce the primary malaria burden, while also expanding and enhancing efforts to eliminate malaria in low burden focal areas across the whole of the country.

Vision: A malaria-free Lao PDR by 2030

Mission: The Lao PDR Government’s malaria mission is to collaborate with all related line ministries, neighboring countries and partners, to empower the health system and communities to eliminate malaria and prevent its re-establishment.

Strategic goals:

Phase one (2021-2025)

The phase 1 goal of the National Strategic Plan (NSP) is to eliminate Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the entire country and to eliminate all species of malaria in the 13 northern provinces. 

• Eliminate the transmission of P. falciparum in the 13 Northern provinces by 2021. 
• Eliminate the transmission of P. falciparum in the entire country by 2023. 
• Eliminate the transmission of P. vivax in the 13 Northern provinces by 2025. 
• Reduce the incidence of indigenous cases of P. vivax to <1 per 1,000 in the Southern provinces by 2025. 
• Prevent re-establishment of malaria in areas where it has been eliminated