TY - JOUR
T1 - Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries
AU - Tatem, Andrew J.
AU - Smith, David L.
AU - Gething, Peter W.
AU - Kabaria, Caroline W.
AU - Snow, Robert W.
AU - Hay, Simon I.
N1 - Funding Information:
AJT, DLS, RWS, and SIH serve as members of the Malaria Elimination Group . RWS has received funding from Novartis for chairing meetings of national control programmes in Africa and has received a research grant from Pfizer. PWG and CWK declare that they have no conflicts of interest. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of their employing organisations nor of the sources of funding.
Funding Information:
We thank Carlos Guerra, Anand Patil, Will Temperley, and Rosalind Howes for supplying P vivax -related datasets, and Nicholas Campiz for help with data processing. We also thank Kevin Baird, Marcel Tanner, Dean Jamison, Anja Bibby, and the Malaria Elimination Group for extensive comments on the manuscript. We also acknowledge the support of the Kenyan Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). This report is published with the permission of the director of KEMRI. AJT and DLS are supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ( #49446 ) and acknowledge (with SIH) funding support from the RAPIDD programme of the Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, and the Fogarty International Center, US National Institutes of Health. SIH is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow ( #076951 ) and the grant supports PWG and CWK. RWS is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow ( #079080 ) and acknowledges the support of the Kenyan Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). This work forms part of the output of the Malaria Atlas Project , principally funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK.
PY - 2010/11/6
Y1 - 2010/11/6
N2 - Experience gained from the Global Malaria Eradication Program (1955-72) identified a set of shared technical and operational factors that enabled some countries to successfully eliminate malaria. Spatial data for these factors were assembled for all malaria-endemic countries and combined to provide an objective, relative ranking of countries by technical, operational, and combined elimination feasibility. The analysis was done separately for Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, and the limitations of the approach were discussed. The relative rankings suggested that malaria elimination would be most feasible in countries in the Americas and Asia, and least feasible in countries in central and west Africa. The results differed when feasibility was measured by technical or operational factors, highlighting the different types of challenge faced by each country. The results are not intended to be prescriptive, predictive, or to provide absolute assessments of feasibility, but they do show that spatial information is available to facilitate evidence-based assessments of the relative feasibility of malaria elimination by country that can be rapidly updated.
AB - Experience gained from the Global Malaria Eradication Program (1955-72) identified a set of shared technical and operational factors that enabled some countries to successfully eliminate malaria. Spatial data for these factors were assembled for all malaria-endemic countries and combined to provide an objective, relative ranking of countries by technical, operational, and combined elimination feasibility. The analysis was done separately for Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, and the limitations of the approach were discussed. The relative rankings suggested that malaria elimination would be most feasible in countries in the Americas and Asia, and least feasible in countries in central and west Africa. The results differed when feasibility was measured by technical or operational factors, highlighting the different types of challenge faced by each country. The results are not intended to be prescriptive, predictive, or to provide absolute assessments of feasibility, but they do show that spatial information is available to facilitate evidence-based assessments of the relative feasibility of malaria elimination by country that can be rapidly updated.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61301-3
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61301-3
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21035838
AN - SCOPUS:78149360885
VL - 376
SP - 1579
EP - 1591
JO - The Lancet
JF - The Lancet
SN - 0140-6736
IS - 9752
ER -