Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria?

Progress made in malaria control during the past decade has prompted increasing global dialogue on malaria elimination and eradication. The product development pipeline for malaria has never been stronger, with promising new tools to detect, treat, and prevent malaria, including innovative diagnosti...

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Main Authors:	Hemingway, Janet, Shretta, Rima, Wells, Timothy N. C., Bell, David, Djimdé, Abdoulaye A., Achee, Nicole, Qi, Gao
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4774904/

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spelling	pubmed-47749042016-03-10 Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria? Hemingway, Janet Shretta, Rima Wells, Timothy N. C. Bell, David Djimdé, Abdoulaye A. Achee, Nicole Qi, Gao Essay Progress made in malaria control during the past decade has prompted increasing global dialogue on malaria elimination and eradication. The product development pipeline for malaria has never been stronger, with promising new tools to detect, treat, and prevent malaria, including innovative diagnostics, medicines, vaccines, vector control products, and improved mechanisms for surveillance and response. There are at least 25 projects in the global malaria vaccine pipeline, as well as 47 medicines and 13 vector control products. In addition, there are several next-generation diagnostic tools and reference methods currently in development, with many expected to be introduced in the next decade. The development and adoption of these tools, bolstered by strategies that ensure rapid uptake in target populations, intensified mechanisms for information management, surveillance, and response, and continued financial and political commitment are all essential to achieving global eradication. Public Library of Science 2016-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4774904/ /pubmed/26934361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002380 Text en © 2016 Hemingway et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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author	Hemingway, Janet Shretta, Rima Wells, Timothy N. C. Bell, David Djimdé, Abdoulaye A. Achee, Nicole Qi, Gao
spellingShingle	Hemingway, Janet Shretta, Rima Wells, Timothy N. C. Bell, David Djimdé, Abdoulaye A. Achee, Nicole Qi, Gao Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria?
author_facet	Hemingway, Janet Shretta, Rima Wells, Timothy N. C. Bell, David Djimdé, Abdoulaye A. Achee, Nicole Qi, Gao
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title	Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria?
title_short	Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria?
title_full	Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria?
title_fullStr	Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria?
title_full_unstemmed	Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria?
title_sort	tools and strategies for malaria control and elimination: what do we need to achieve a grand convergence in malaria?
description	Progress made in malaria control during the past decade has prompted increasing global dialogue on malaria elimination and eradication. The product development pipeline for malaria has never been stronger, with promising new tools to detect, treat, and prevent malaria, including innovative diagnostics, medicines, vaccines, vector control products, and improved mechanisms for surveillance and response. There are at least 25 projects in the global malaria vaccine pipeline, as well as 47 medicines and 13 vector control products. In addition, there are several next-generation diagnostic tools and reference methods currently in development, with many expected to be introduced in the next decade. The development and adoption of these tools, bolstered by strategies that ensure rapid uptake in target populations, intensified mechanisms for information management, surveillance, and response, and continued financial and political commitment are all essential to achieving global eradication.
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Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria?

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