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The success rate of quitting smoking also showed an increase of 5 per cent for July to December 2014
cohort and an increase of 2 per cent for each cohort beginning January to June 2015 until now. The
quitting rate for cohort January to June 2017 rose to 41.1 per cent where successful customers quit
smoking were 1,625 clients from 3957 clients registered. Figure 50 shows the trend in stop smoking
rates.

Figure 50
Trend in Quit Rate, Year 2011 to 2017 (January to June)

Source: Stop Smoking Rate Data, Family of Health Development Division 2017

Health promotion for quit smoking services has been expanded with a mQuit channel where clients
can seek treatment at either a health clinic, a private hospital or a registered pharmacy. It is hope that
with this effort, more clients will be enrolled in quit smoking services and hence will enable Malaysia
to achieve the WHO Global NCD 2011 to 2025 target in reducing smoking prevalence by 30 per cent.

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES MANAGEMENT IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

HIV management is one of the services in primary health care which includes health education,
screening, anti-retroviral therapy, opportunistic infection screening and treatment and long term follow
up. The screening program comprises of anonymous screening, premarital screening and antenatal
screening. In 2017, 259,392 premarital screening and 36,027 anonymous screening were done.

Anti-Retroviral therapy (ARV) for HIV patients at the health clinics was started in 2000, managed
by trained Family Medicine Specialist (FMS). In 2017, 312 FMS were trained by Infectious Disease
Specialists in designated hospitals and 299 (95.83 per cent) of them had initiated ARV treatment.
Currently, a cumulative total of 6,556 patients had received ARV treatment from health clinics.

Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT) was started in health clinics in 2005. In 2017, 398 health
clinics provided MMT with 2,330 new patients registered and a retention rate of 67.5 per cent.

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