The Lancet  
Sep 24, 2011  Volume 378  Number 9797  p1117 – 1196
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Editorial
Malaria: control vs elimination vs eradication
The Lancet

In The Lancet today, we report the presentation of this year’s Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award to Tu Youyou, a Chinese pharmacologist, for discovering the antimalarial drug artemisinin in the 1970s. Breakthroughs in malaria research such as hers, together with increased funding and control efforts during the past decade, have led to impressive reductions in mortality in many developing countries.