Table 1.

Characterization of populations at higher risk for malaria as identified by APMEN country partners

	BGD	BTN	KHM	CHN	PRK	IDN	MYS	NPL	PHL	KOR	SLB	THA	VUT	VNM
Work
Forest workers	•		•			•	•	•	•					•
Agricultural workers	•	•			•	•	•			•				•
Military		•	•				•		•	•
Development project and construction site workers					•				•
Miners						•			•
Students		•
Research surveyors							•
Other (i.e. monks, civil/government employees)		•									•
Mobility and Migration
Migrant workers		•	•	•			•	•	•					•
Mobile populations at country borders			•	•				•						•
Local and foreign tourists									•
Indigenous nomads													•
Other (i.e. nondescript mobile and migrant populations)											•		•
Demographics
Ethnic minorities, indigenous people							•		•				•	•
Refugees, internally displaced populations								•	•
Low socioeconomic status poor/homeless								•			•		•
Geographically remote/isolated	•										•		•	•
Time spent in malaria endemic regions			•							•		•
Pregnant women, infants and children						•

The categories are not mutually exclusive

Country abbreviations (adopted from the United Nations country abbreviations). BGD Bangladesh, BTN Bhutan, KHM Cambodia, CHN China, PRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, IDN Indonesia, MYS Malaysia, NPL Nepal, PHL Philippines, KOR Republic of Korea, SLB Solomon Islands, THA Thailand, VUT Vanuatu, VNM Vietnam