The Lancet
Nov 13, 2010  Volume 376  Number 9753  Pages 1617 – 1710
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Research priorities for malaria elimination
Kevin Marsh

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The Lancet’s four-paper Series examines the need for, and prospects of, malaria elimination. The papers make sobering reading. Elimination will be hard work, it will take a long time, and it will be expensive. Moreover, elimination requires that we first control malaria to the point where it is no longer a public health problem, and this is by far the most important, immediate target for increased and sustained international investment.1 Nonetheless, elimination (and eventually eradication) is still important as a long-term goal, both for countries that are currently or will shortly be in a position to consider it, and worldwide.