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The Epidemiology Department of MORU and National Malaria Control Programme, Cambodia (CNM) have begun to implement a study to assess the efficacy of prophylaxis with artemether-lumefantrine (PAL) against forest malaria in Siem Pang District, north-eastern Cambodia bordering Laos.

Composite image of rural village in Cambodia © MORU 2020.
An improvised village for forest workers, who sustain themselves with food gathered from the surrounding jungle.
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