A national policy for malaria elimination in Swaziland: a first for sub-Saharan Africa

Swaziland is working to be the first country in mainland sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate malaria. The highest level of Swaziland's government recently approved a national elimination policy, which endorses Swaziland's robust national elimination strategic plan. This commentary outlines Swa...

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Autores principales: Kunene, Simon, Phillips, Allison A, Gosling, Roly D, Kandula, Deepika, Novotny, Joseph M
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3219738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22018266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-313
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author Kunene, Simon
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description Swaziland is working to be the first country in mainland sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate malaria. The highest level of Swaziland's government recently approved a national elimination policy, which endorses Swaziland's robust national elimination strategic plan. This commentary outlines Swaziland's progress towards elimination as well as the challenges that remain, primarily around securing long-term financial resources and managing imported cases from neighbouring countries.
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spelling pubmed-32197382011-11-18 A national policy for malaria elimination in Swaziland: a first for sub-Saharan Africa Kunene, Simon Phillips, Allison A Gosling, Roly D Kandula, Deepika Novotny, Joseph M Malar J Commentary Swaziland is working to be the first country in mainland sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate malaria. The highest level of Swaziland's government recently approved a national elimination policy, which endorses Swaziland's robust national elimination strategic plan. This commentary outlines Swaziland's progress towards elimination as well as the challenges that remain, primarily around securing long-term financial resources and managing imported cases from neighbouring countries. BioMed Central 2011-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3219738/ /pubmed/22018266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-313 Text en Copyright ©2011 Kunene et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A national policy for malaria elimination in Swaziland: a first for sub-Saharan Africa
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