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

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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 languageEnglish
Article number167
JournalBMC Medicine
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jul 2015

Keywords

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

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