National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) of Thailand: 2017 – 2026

The Thailand Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), via the Department of Disease Control, has developed a National Malaria Elimination Strategic Plan 2017 – 2026 with the vision that Thailand will be malaria free by 2024.

There are four strategies:

• Strategy 1: Scale-up malaria elimination in Thailand
• Strategy 2: Develop technologies, innovations, measures, and models that are appropriate for malaria elimination
• Strategy 3: Develop partnerships among stakeholders and national and international level to enable malaria elimination
• Strategy 4: Promote and empower communities to protect themselves from malaria

The proposed budget for the Malaria Elimination Operation Plan during 2017 – 2021 is 2.283 million Thai Baht.

To drive the Strategic Plan and monitor progress of implementation requires mechanisms at national level, i.e. the Committee on Sustainable Development, the Steering Committee on Malaria Elimination, and the Administrative Committee on Malaria Elimination. At the provincial level, the Office of Public Health Inspectors, the Office of the Permanent Secretary, and the Department of Disease Control are responsible for transferring the policy, guidelines, and interventions through the Provincial Communicable Disease Committees to push the Communicable Disease Control Units (CDCU), the health facility units of both public and private sectors, and civil society organizations to implement the malaria elimination plan according to the local context of each area.