Sentence examples for malaria elimination programme from inspiring English sources

Surveillance and response are the most important components driving the whole process of the national malaria elimination programme (NMEP), under the technical guidance used in NMEP.

This study opens an avenue to explore new breeding habitats of malaria vectors in the country and reemphasizes the requirement of conducting entomological surveillance to detect potential transmission of malaria in Sri Lanka under the current malaria elimination programme.

Such a tool will be valuable to malaria elimination programmes, and will also help to spot and contain the spread of drug-resistant parasites from Asia.

Malaria elimination programmes in Africa need to include strategies for control of P. o. curtisi and P. o. wallikeri.

These successes, together with a considerable increase in funds available for malaria control activities, have sparked renewed optimism for malaria elimination programmes [9], [10].

Dose-finding is a priority for the use of primaquine in malaria elimination programmes and to block the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria.

Evidence is needed to inform the optimal dosing of primaquine for malaria elimination programmes and for the purpose of interrupting the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria.

The administration of drugs against malaria to whole populations, termed mass drug administration (MDA), was a component of many malaria elimination programmes in the 1950s, and is once again attracting interest as a malaria elimination tool.

This guidance was recently updated to recommend a lower dose of 0.25 mg/kg primaquine without G6PD testing for new malaria elimination programmes and to prevent the spread of artemisinin resistance.

Mass drug administration (MDA) was a component of many malaria elimination programmes during the eradication era, but it is not currently recommended due to concerns about efficacy, logistical feasibility, sustainability and the risk of accelerating drug resistance (WHO 2010).

Given the high frequency of asymptomatic infections, information on individual patients should be combined with modelling or community-based trials of treatment regimens with and without PQ to determine the malaria and population characteristics under which PQ is likely to be an important additional contributor to malaria elimination programmes (including mass treatment and 'test and treat').