The Lancet
Nov 06, 2010  Volume 376  Number 9752  Pages 1513 – 1616
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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Malaria elimination: worthy, challenging, and just possible
Pam Das, Richard Horton
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“I have been astonished by colleagues who have suggested that smallpox eradication must have been easy…some with more grandiose dreams have argued that a whole new vista for public health has opened—the eradication of many diseases…At this time, I don’t believe we have either the technology or the commitment to pursue another eradication goal.”D A Henderson, 20091

Call to action: priorities for malaria elimination
Richard GA Feachem, Allison A Phillips, Geoffrey A Targett, Robert W Snow
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The Lancet’s four-part Series on malaria elimination summarises the remarkable progress achieved over the past 100 years and discusses the substantial technical, operational, and financial challenges that confront malaria-eliminating countries.1–4 The Series comes at a time when there are increased resources to combat malaria worldwide. A three-part strategy to achieve malaria eradication has been developed and is widely endorsed: aggressive control in high-burden regions; progressive elimination from endemic margins to shrink the malaria map; and research and development, to develop new tools and techniques.

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Shrinking the malaria map: progress and prospects
Richard GA Feachem, Allison A Phillips, Jimee Hwang, Chris Cotter, Benjamin Wielgosz, Brian M Greenwood, Oliver Sabot, Mario Henry Rodriguez, Rabindra R Abeyasinghe, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Robert W Snow

Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries
Andrew J Tatem, David L Smith, Peter W Gething, Caroline W Kabaria, Robert W Snow, Simon I Hay

Operational strategies to achieve and maintain malaria elimination
Bruno Moonen, Justin M Cohen, Robert W Snow, Laurence Slutsker, Chris Drakeley, David L Smith, Rabindra R Abeyasinghe, Mario Henry Rodriguez, Rajendra Maharaj, Marcel Tanner, Geoffrey Targett

Costs and financial feasibility of malaria elimination
Oliver Sabot, Justin M Cohen, Michelle S Hsiang, James G Kahn, Suprotik Basu, Linhua Tang, Bin Zheng, Qi Gao, Linda Zou, Allison Tatarsky, Shahina Aboobakar, Jennifer Usas, Scott Barrett, Jessica L Cohen, Dean T Jamison, Richard GA Feachem