Malaria Eradication Programme and Ecology.

Ecology: A Prerequisite for Malaria Elimination and Eradication

1 Biomedical and Environmental Thematic Group, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, 2 Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, 4 International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 5 I...

Terminology of Malaria and of Malaria Eradication.

Malaria: global challenges for malaria eradication

Theenormousdecline in theannualmorbidity andmortality frommalaria is the spectacular global public health success of the past decade. This achievement results largely from increased finance for investment in measures known to prevent malaria: bednets treated with long-lasting insecticides, chemoprophylaxis, and rapid access to effective treatment.Suchhasbeenthesuccessof thesemeasures thatplans ...

Adapting Nepal’s polio eradication programme

PROBLEM Many countries have weak disease surveillance and immunization systems. The elimination of polio creates an opportunity to use staff and assets from the polio eradication programme to control other vaccine-preventable diseases and improve disease surveillance and immunization systems. APPROACH In 2003, the active surveillance system of Nepal's polio eradication programme began to repo...

Some Lessons for the Future from the Global Malaria Eradication Programme (1955–1969)

Encouraged by the early success of using dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on the Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) in 1955. Fourteen years later, the campaign was discontinued when it was recognised that eradication was not achievable with the available means in many areas, although the long-term goal remained unchange...