Preliminary results of the study on malaria epidemiology among migrating people in Easup district of DakLak province

ABSTRACT

A study conducted in 4 communes in Easup district of Daklak province, the result showed that the nomadic people are of the ethnic minority group of Tay, Nung, Thai, Muong coming from Northern provinces. The main reason for their migration is poor economic conditions (100%). Whole families or households moved and settled in new areas (76.42%). Most of them lived in temporary houses (79.1%), near the forest, at edge of the forest or inside the forest (51.9%) Self prevention form mosquito bites was poor with 19.7% of new settles did not regularly sleep under mosquito nets or lack of misquito nets (52.2%). The malaria incidence among the new settlers was found to be higher than that of old settlers as clinical malaria 4.75% compared to 2.34%, confirmed cases 2.71% compared to 0.20% while it was similar to the local ethnic minority groups with clinical and confirmed cases were equal in both groups