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Cambodian scientist Yeang Chheang has spent six decades fighting malaria in Cambodia -- even risking his life to hand out pills in a Khmer Rouge labour camp -- and now the country stands tantalisingly close to realising his dream.
The kingdom is stepping up a "last mile" push to wipe out the mosquito-borne disease, focusing on hard-to-reach pockets of population in remote, forested or mountainous areas.
From 170,000 cases and 865 deaths from malaria in 1997, only 355 cases were recorded last year -- and not a single fatality has been reported since 2018.
The hope is that 2025 will see zero cases -- a landmark that would be unthinkable without the groundwork laid by Yeang Chheang, who rebuilt the kingdom's malaria reduction programme after the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES