The Lancet
Nov 28, 2009  Volume 374  Number 9704  Pages 1793 – 1866
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Editorial
Can malaria be eliminated?
The Lancet

Preview: At the UK Academy of Medical Sciences’ annual international health lecture last week, Nicholas White asked whether malaria elimination was feasible or futile. By elimination, he means the interruption of malaria transmission, creating zero incidence of locally contracted cases. White reviewed past attempts to control, eliminate, and even eradicate malaria—and their disappointments. But now, he argued, there was a new opportunity to defeat malaria, an opportunity that should be grasped firmly before the fashions of global health divert attention elsewhere.