Regional initiatives for malaria elimination: Building and maintaining partnerships

Andrew A Lover; Kelly E Harvard; Alistair E Lindawson; Cara Smith Gueye; Rima Shretta; Roly Gosling; Richard Feachem

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002401

Regional initiatives for malaria elimination: Building and maintaining partnerships

PLoS Med. 2017 Oct 5;14(10):e1002401. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002401. eCollection 2017 Oct.

Authors

Andrew A Lover¹, Kelly E Harvard¹, Alistair E Lindawson¹, Cara Smith Gueye¹, Rima Shretta¹, Roly Gosling¹, Richard Feachem¹

Affiliation

¹ Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.

Abstract

Andrew Lover and colleagues discuss regional malaria initiatives, the strengths and challenges.

MeSH terms

Africa, Southern / epidemiology
Asia, Southeastern / epidemiology
Central America / epidemiology
Communicable Disease Control* / methods
Communicable Disease Control* / organization & administration
Communicable Disease Control* / trends
Disease Eradication* / methods
Disease Eradication* / statistics & numerical data
Epidemiological Monitoring
Health Policy / trends
Humans
International Cooperation
Malaria* / epidemiology
Malaria* / prevention & control
Pacific Islands / epidemiology
Regional Health Planning* / economics
Regional Health Planning* / methods
Regional Medical Programs / organization & administration*

Grants and funding

The authors are supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [OPOPP1089413]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.