Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality

Authors

Marcel Tanner, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
Brian Greenwood, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Christopher J.M. Whitty, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Evelyn K. Ansah, Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
Ric N. Price, Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, AustraliaFollow
Arjen M. Dondorp, University of Oxford
Lorenz von Seidlein, University of Oxford
J. Kevin Baird, ALERTAsia FoundationFollow
James G. Beeson, Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
Freya J.I. Fowkes, Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
Janet Hemingway, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK
Kevin Marsh, African Academy of Sciences, Miotoni Road, Miotoni Lane, House No. 8 Karen, P.O. Box 24916-00502, Nairobi, Kenya
Faith Osier, KEMRI Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

Date of this Version

2015

Citation

Tanner et al. BMC Medicine (2015) 13:167

Comments

CC-BY license

Abstract

Although global efforts in the past decade have halved the number of deaths due to malaria, there are still an estimated 219 million cases of malaria a year, causing more than half a million deaths. In this forum article, we asked experts working in malaria research and control to discuss the ways in which malaria might eventually be eradicated. Their collective views highlight the challenges and opportunities, and explain how multi-factorial and integrated processes could eventually make malaria eradication a reality.