An Analysis Meeting on the malaria situation in Yunnan for 1998 was held in Tenchong on 1-3 March 1999. In 1998, the incidence rate, the positive rate of blood examination, and parasite carrier rate were higher than the previous year. This indicated that the malaria situation was still serious. However local health services are still very poor resulting in malaria patients being unable to get treatment in time. In 1998 malaria out-breaks occurred in various locations indicating that mobile population management is still one of the main problems in border areas.
Most malarious areas are difficult to access.
Therefore standard anti-malaria measures and surveillance are not easily implemented. Funding for malaria control activities primarily relies on the local government. Funds from the Public Health Bureau of Yunnan are subsidiary. Consequently malaria control funds are not efficiently acquired. This present malaria control management model is unable to adapt to the development of market economies.