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SUBMITTER: Feachem RG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3044848 | biostudies-other | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lancet (London, England) 20101028 9752
In the past 150 years, roughly half of the countries in the world eliminated malaria. Nowadays, there are 99 endemic countries-67 are controlling malaria and 32 are pursuing an elimination strategy. This four-part Series presents evidence about the technical, operational, and financial dimensions of malaria elimination. The first paper in this Series reviews definitions of elimination and the state that precedes it: controlled low-endemic malaria. Feasibility assessments are described as a cruci ...[more]