Good News in Malaria Control… Now What?

Richard W. Steketee Malaria Control Program, PATH, Ferney-Voltaire, France

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    Kleinschmidt I, Schwabe C, Benavente L, Torrez M, Ridl FC, Segura JL, Ehmer P, Nchama GN, 2009. Marked increase in child survival after four years of intensive malaria control. Am J Trop Med Hyg 80 :882–888.

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    Lengeler C, 2004. Insecticide-treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (online). Article No.: CD000363.

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    Molineaux L, Gramiccia G, 1980. The Garki Project: Research on the Epidemiology and Control of Malaria in the Sudan Savanna of West Africa. Geneva: WHO.

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    Payne D, Grab B, Fontaine RE, Hempel JH, 1976. Impact of control measures on malaria transmission and general mortality. Bull World Health Organ 54 :369–377.

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    Bradley D, 1991. Morbidity and mortality at Pare-Taveta, Kenya and Tanzania, 1954–66: the effects of a period of malaria control. Feachem R, Jamison D, eds. Disease and Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. New York: University Oxford Press, 248–263.

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    Bhattarai A, Ali AS, Kachur SP, Mårtensson A, Abbas AK, Khatib R, Al-Mafazy AW, Ramsan M, Rotllant G, Gerstenmaier JF, Molteni F, Abdulla S, Mongomery SM, Kaneko A, Björkman A, 2007. Impact of artemisinin-based combination therapy and insecticide-treated nets on malaria burden in Zanzibar. PLoS Med 4 :e309.

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    Teklehaimanot HD, Teklehaimanot A, Kiszewski A, Rampao HS, Sachs JD, 2009. Malaria in São Tomé and Principe: on the brink of elimination after three years of effective antimalarial measures. Am J Trop Med Hyg 80 :133–140.

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    Otten M, Aregawi M, Were W, Karema C, Medin A, Jima D, Kebede W, Gausi K, Komatsu R, Korenromp E, Low-Beer D, Grabowsky M, 2009. Initial evidence of reduction of malaria cases and deaths in Rwanda and Ethiopia due to rapid scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment. Malar J 8 :14.

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    Roll Back Malaria, 2008. Global malaria action plan. Available at: http://www.rbm.who.int/gmap/index.html.

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    Chitnis N, Schapira A, Smith T, Steketee RW. Comparing the effectiveness of malaria vector control interventions through a mathematical model. Am J Trop Med Hyg (submitted).

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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006. Locally acquired mosquito-transmitted malaria: a guide for investigations in the United States. MMWR Recomm Rep 55 :1–9.

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    Available at: http://www.marathon.com/Global_Operations/Exploration_and_Production/Equatorial_Guinea.

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    See reports on the following web sites. Available at: http://www.marathon.com/Social_Responsibility/Making_a_Difference/Malaria_Control_Project/; http://www.marathon.com/content/documents/fact_sheets/fact_sheet_malaria_june_2008.pdf; http://www.ipieca.org/activities/partnerships/downloads/casestudies/biokoisland.pdf; http://www.gbcimpact.org/itcs_node/4/0/report/1616.

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    Available at: http://www.theglobalfund.org/programs/grant/?compid=1013&grantid=488&lang=en&CountryId=GNQ.

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  • 15

    Available at: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GHI/business_action_against_malaria.pdf.

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    Available at: http://www.ashantigold.com/subwebs/InformationForInvestors/Reports07/ReportToSociety07/files/siguiri_malaria.pdf.

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