Perspective on Malaria Eradication: Is Eradication Possible without Modifying the Mosquito?

Malaria eradication back on the table.

a Swiss Tropical Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland. Correspondence to Marcel Tanner (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.07.050633 After a lapse of almost 40 years, malaria eradication is back on the global health agenda. Inspired by the Gates Malaria Forum in October 2007,1,2 key organizations are starting to debate the pros and cons of redefining eradication as...

Rinderpest: the veterinary perspective on eradication.

Rinderpest was a devastating disease of livestock responsible for continent-wide famine and poverty. Centuries of veterinary advances culminated in 2011 with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health declaring global eradication of rinderpest; only the second disease to be eradicated and the greatest veterinary achievement of our time. Conventional co...

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 ...

Terminology of Malaria and of Malaria Eradication.

Food bioactive components, a possible adjuvant for H. pylori eradication

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