The Ministry of Public Health expects to have eradicated malaria again in the Dominican Republic by 2025. Statistics of the Ministry of Public Health show a progressive dropping of the incidence of the disease in the country since 2019. The director of the Center for Prevention and Control of Diseases Transmitted by Vectors and Zoonosis (Cecovez-Cencet), Dr. José Luis Cruz Raposo highlighted that the number of malaria cases in 2019 were 1,314 while in 2022 only 336 were reported.
Most of the cases of malaria in the country are tied to migrants from Haiti.
The Ministry of Public Health this week inaugurated the new installations of the Malaria Molecular Biology Lab (Laboratorio de Biologia Molecular de Malaria). The new installations are located at the Centro de Prevencion y Control de Enfermedades Transmitidas por Vectores y Zoonosis (Cecovez-Cencet).
Minister of Public Health Daniel Rivera had praise for the cooperation received from the Carter Center of the United States for the installation of the laboratory.
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Ministry of Public Health
27 April 2023