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There should be a World Health Assembly resolution for malaria eradication
Several efforts are being made now for malaria elimination with a goal for eradication. New tools and strategies are being developed and there is currently renewed political engagement and interest. Several technical groups have produced a guide on elimination for policymakers and indicated differen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6802298/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31630679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2983-8 |
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description | Several efforts are being made now for malaria elimination with a goal for eradication. New tools and strategies are being developed and there is currently renewed political engagement and interest. Several technical groups have produced a guide on elimination for policymakers and indicated different research questions to be addressed. The World Health Assembly resolution and the United Nations General Assembly convened a high-level roundtable “From High Burden to High Impact: Getting back on track to end Malaria”. In Africa, the Head of states pronounced a vision for an Africa free of malaria and launched the slogan “Zero malaria starts with me”. Massive efforts to sustain research capacity in the endemic countries will be critical. It will be important to both increase domestic financing, and advocate to sustain and increase funding from major donor countries. It is unethical to continue to observe deaths of so many children in malaria endemic countries, the most vulnerable populations. Considering malaria eradication as a vision and working with all the opportunities we now have could accelerate the process. Eliminating malaria with a country regional approach and progressing step by step will give us consistent information on our way towards eradication. |
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spelling | pubmed-68022982019-10-22 There should be a World Health Assembly resolution for malaria eradication Gaye, Oumar Malar J Debate Several efforts are being made now for malaria elimination with a goal for eradication. New tools and strategies are being developed and there is currently renewed political engagement and interest. Several technical groups have produced a guide on elimination for policymakers and indicated different research questions to be addressed. The World Health Assembly resolution and the United Nations General Assembly convened a high-level roundtable “From High Burden to High Impact: Getting back on track to end Malaria”. In Africa, the Head of states pronounced a vision for an Africa free of malaria and launched the slogan “Zero malaria starts with me”. Massive efforts to sustain research capacity in the endemic countries will be critical. It will be important to both increase domestic financing, and advocate to sustain and increase funding from major donor countries. It is unethical to continue to observe deaths of so many children in malaria endemic countries, the most vulnerable populations. Considering malaria eradication as a vision and working with all the opportunities we now have could accelerate the process. Eliminating malaria with a country regional approach and progressing step by step will give us consistent information on our way towards eradication. BioMed Central 2019-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6802298/ /pubmed/31630679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2983-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Debate Gaye, Oumar There should be a World Health Assembly resolution for malaria eradication |
title | There should be a World Health Assembly resolution for malaria eradication |
title_full | There should be a World Health Assembly resolution for malaria eradication |
title_fullStr | There should be a World Health Assembly resolution for malaria eradication |
title_full_unstemmed | There should be a World Health Assembly resolution for malaria eradication |
title_short | There should be a World Health Assembly resolution for malaria eradication |
title_sort | there should be a world health assembly resolution for malaria eradication |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6802298/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31630679 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2983-8 |
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