Though malaria control initiatives have markedly reduced malaria prevalence in recent decades, global eradication is far from actuality. Recent studies show that environmental and social heterogeneities in low-transmission settings have an increased weight in shaping malaria micro-epidemiology. New integrated and more localized control strategies should be developed and tested. Here we present ...

1. Background In 1949 malaria was the leading cause of death with over 38,000 deaths, a rate of 201.5 per 100,000 population. The only two control measures being available were drug distribution and mosquito protection. A WHO-UNICEF Malaria Control Demonstration Project was conducted in a northern province. During the same period the Thai Government established similar projects in other areas. ...

The Zambian national malaria control programme has made great progress in the fight against Malaria. The country has solid, consistent, and coordinated policies, strategies, and guidelines for malaria control, with government prioritizing malaria in both the National Health Strategic Plan and the National Development Plan. This has translated into high coverage of proven and effective key preve...

a Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi, India. b Indian Institute of Public Health, 2nd & 3rd Floor, JSS Software Technology Park, E1/1, Infocity Road, Patia, Bhubaneswar751024, Odisha, India. c Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Mohammad A Hussain (email: [email protected]) Despite more than five decades of intensive control efforts, malaria is st...

objective: malaria is an infectious disease commonplace in tropical countries. for many years, major antimalarial drugs consisted of natural products, but since 1930s these drugs have been largely replaced with a series of synthetic drugs. this article tries to briefly indicate that some plants which previously were used to treat malaria, as a result of deficiencies of synthetic drugs, have rev...

With more than 1 million child deaths annually, malaria remains the single leading killer of young children in subSaharan Africa [1]. Millions more young children survive, but still suffer from severe anemia and permanent neurological damage [1], as well as more subtle neuropsychiatric disturbances including impaired cognition and memory [2]. Malaria in pregnancy is also a major cause of matern...

It took 10 years from the moment the last case of malaria was reported to the moment the United Arab Emirates (UAE) received certification earlier this year by the World Health Organization (WHO) that it was finally free of the debilitating disease. Eliminating malaria means stamping out endemic cases, or those due to local mosquito-borne transmission, and maintaining this situation for at leas...