This new open platform tool could allow malaria control programs to map the locations of malaria cases and predict which other areas may be at risk of future outbreaks.
Most malaria control programs use insecticides for controlling mosquito populations.
The identification of Plasmodium species in Anopheles mosquitoes is an integral component of malaria control programs.
Local prevalence data are needed to design effective community-based malaria control programs, as endemicity varies greatly within districts.
Our results demonstrate that understanding decision making of people in malaria endemic areas is essential to design more effective malaria control programs.
Our results can prove to be useful for designing future experiments and field trials of alternative malaria control mechanisms and they also have implications on the development of malaria control programs.
This simple and sensitive PCR method can be useful in specific situations and in different settings of malaria management, in endemic as well as non-endemic areas (travelers), and in clinical or epidemiological studies, with applications in malaria control programs.
The authors conclude by calling on malaria control programs to "develop practical solutions to the financial and operational threats to effectively sustaining today's successful malaria control programs".
But in the past, malaria has returned when malaria control programs have been weakened -- and they've usually been weakened when resources dried up.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the world's leading source of international financing to support malaria control programs in the world.
Because malaria control programs all over the world are presently facing a funding crisis, due to a freeze in grant funding from the largest international funder of malaria programs.
