To define the capacity andreadiness of the health care system of Kyrgyzstan to ensure transition of malaria control to elimination in 2005-2007, health administrators scheduled and educated 2089 public health specialists in the problem of management, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of malaria, followed by their questioning. Areas at high risk for malaria transmission and those with local malaria foci, such as the Kadamzhaisky, Batkensky, Alamedinsky, Sokuluksky, and Issyk-Atinsky Districts and the city of Bishkek, were selected for polling. A research agency developed 5 structured questionnaires to interview respondents. The questionnaires included questions on occupation and those urgent to various groups of specialists. On the basis of the performed analysis, the following recommendations have been formulated: * to increase the duration of trainings in accordance with the amount of contained material; * to develop topical teaching modules for training and to make them more specific and detailed for individual specialists; * to conduct short (3-day) traveling on-site trainings for specialists of therapeutic-and-prophylactic institutions and state sanitary-and-epidemiological surveillance; * to assess the participants' knowledge before and after training (pre- and posttests) during education courses for further training correction.