Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality

Marcel Tanner; Brian Greenwood; Christopher J.M. Whitty; Evelyn K. Ansah; Ric N. Price; Arjen M. Dondorp; Lorenz von Seidlein; J. Kevin Baird; James G. Beeson; Freya J.I. Fowkes; Janet Hemingway; Kevin Marsh; Faith Osier

doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0384-6

Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality

Marcel Tanner
, Brian Greenwood
, Christopher J.M. Whitty
, Evelyn K. Ansah
, Ric N. Price
, Arjen M. Dondorp
, Lorenz von Seidlein
, J. Kevin Baird
, James G. Beeson
, Freya J.I. Fowkes
, Janet Hemingway
, Kevin Marsh
, Faith Osier

Vector Biology

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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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University of Melbourne
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Abstract

Although global efforts in the past decade have halved the number of deaths due to malaria, there are still an estimated 219 million cases of malaria a year, causing more than half a million deaths. In this forum article, we asked experts working in malaria research and control to discuss the ways in which malaria might eventually be eradicated. Their collective views highlight the challenges and opportunities, and explain how multi-factorial and integrated processes could eventually make malaria eradication a reality.

Original language	English
Article number	167
Journal	BMC Medicine
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0384-6
Publication status	Published - 25 Jul 2015

UN SDGs

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Capacity building
Drug resistance
Epidemiology
Eradication
Malaria
Mass drug administration
Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium vivax
Rapid diagnostics
Vaccines
Vector control

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