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A Community-directed Strategy for Sustainable Malaria Elimination on Islands: Short-term MDA Integrated with ITNs and Robust Surveillance

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Journal Acta Trop
Publisher Elsevier
Specialty Tropical Medicine
Date 2010 Feb 6
PMID 20132788
Citations 57
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Abstract

In the Asia Pacific sites with low and unstable transmission, elimination should be feasible with existing tools. On Aneityum island, Vanuatu, both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria were eliminated in 1991 after implementation of a combined intervention package, including mass drug administration (MDA) and insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), with high degree of community involvement. Subsequently, community-based surveillance and vector control measures have kept. By reviewing the experiences of the Aneityum project, I intended to examine the roles of community in malaria elimination. To be successful, the program should transfer major intervention components from the external donor-directed initiative to the community-directed approach. Scaling up of community involvement from simple participation to social participation, where communities involve in health planning functions is necessary from malaria control to malaria elimination.

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