In the Asia Pacific sites with low and unstable transmission, elimination should be feasible with existing tools. On Aneityum island, Vanuatu, both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria were eliminated in 1991 after implementation of a combined intervention package, including mass drug administration (MDA) and insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), with high degree of community invol...

BACKGROUND According to willingness of the Ministry of Health, Iran and presence of appropriate conditions for disease elimination, national malaria control program decided to conduct a research to clarify malaria status in 2007 and to provide required information to perform the elimination program. This review is comprised of the basis of national malaria elimination program in vision of 2025,...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is in the pre-elimination phase of malaria control, but malaria epidemics are still a concern in the south of the country. This retrospective study presents the epidemiological characteristics and predisposing factors of 60 of the malaria epidemics reported in Sistan va Baluchestan province during 2005-09. A zero-truncated negative binomial model was used to investi...

In the past decade there has been a significant reduction in malaria incidence globally. In some places continuous surveillance has indicated that the reduction in malaria cases has been sustained to the point of near elimination. The drastic reduction in malaria cases may be attributed to the unprecedented financial support to national malaria control programmes by several donors. The use of i...

Unprecedented efforts are now underway to eliminate malaria from many regions. Despite the enormous financial resources committed, if malaria elimination is perceived as failing it is likely that this funding will not be sustained. It is imperative that methods are developed to use the limited data available to design site-specific, cost-effective elimination programmes. Mathematical modelling ...

MALARIA CONTROL MALARIA ELIMINATION (Phase I Getting to Zero) MALARIA ELIMINATION (Phase II 'Holding the Line') Personal protection (LLINs, repellants) Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) Diagnosis & treatment (PCD & ACD/MBS where applicable) Chemoprophylaxis (MDA, IPTi) Surveillance (parasite and/or vector) Larviciding and source reduction Community participation in other disease control & health d...

Background Malaria elimination is on global agendas following successful transmission reductions. Nevertheless moving from low to zero transmission is challenging. South Africa has an elimination target of 2018, which may or may not be realised in its hypoendemic areas. Methods The Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System has monitored population health in north-eastern South Afri...

Since the turn of the century, a remarkable expansion has been achieved in the range and effectiveness of products and strategies available to prevent, treat, and control malaria, including advances in diagnostics, drugs, vaccines, and vector control. These advances have once again put malaria elimination on the agenda. However, it is clear that even with the means available today, malaria cont...

Malaria is a contagious infectious disease that still threatening human life. morbidity when viewed by province shows Eastern Indonesia the area with highest Annual Parasite Incidence (API), namely Papua, West NTT, and Maluku. This concern for continued efforts to control eliminate malaria in these high malaria-endemic areas. There are many strategies help prevent, include possibility of innova...