Malaria control efforts have taken many forms.
Elsewhere, elimination fell foul of the problem that has bedevilled all malaria control efforts: resistance of the malaria parasite to drugs and of the mosquitoes to pesticides.
Add into this equation the Ebola crisis in the highly malarial countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone which are seeing malaria control efforts virtually shut down.
Malaria control efforts and elimination in Africa are being challenged by the development of resistance of parasites to antimalarial drugs and vectors to insecticides.
The results will be useful for rapid retrieval of malaria information, and to prioritize malaria control efforts in identified hot spots.
Some of these programs aim to fund a broad range of malaria research, whereas others aim to fund ongoing malaria control efforts in endemic areas.
Malaria control efforts and care delivery must be kept on track during an Ebola epidemic so that progress made in malaria control is not jeopardised and Ebola outbreak response is not impeded," he said.
With the rainy season under way – when more malaria cases occur – it is vital to help keep malaria control efforts on track at the same time as responding to Ebola.
We review the role of modelling in previous malaria control efforts as well as the unique nature of elimination and the consequent need for its explicit modelling, and emphasise the importance of good disease surveillance.
Malaria control efforts in regions with challenging infrastructure require reproducible and efficient surveillance.
However, without pre-tsunami data, the impact of the massive malaria control efforts by various national and international agencies cannot be determined from this study.
