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

Tanner, Marcel, Greenwood, Brian, Whitty, Christopher J M, Ansah, Evelyn K, Price, Ric N, Dondorp, Arjen N, von Seidlein, Lorenz, Baird, J Kevin, Beeson, James G, Fowkes, Freya J I, Hemingway, Janet ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3200-7173, Marsh, Kevin and Osier, Faith (2015) 'Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality'. BMC Medicine, Vol 13, Issue 167.

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Malaria Plasmodium falciparum Plasmodium vivax Eradication Epidemiology; Rapid diagnostics; Drug resistance; Mass drug administration; Vaccines; Vector control; Capacity building
Subjects:	QX Parasitology > Insects. Other Parasites > QX 600 Insect control. Tick control WA Public Health > WA 105 Epidemiology WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 765 Prevention and control
Faculty: Department:	Biological Sciences > Vector Biology Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0384-6
Depositing User:	Jessica Jones
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2016 11:16
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2018 13:11
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/5554

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