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Mass Drug Administration (MDA) is a strategy that was popular during historical malaria elimination and eradication attempts. It is now being revisited as a key intervention to stop malaria…

In elimination settings when cases are clustered, understanding exactly where the malaria risk is becomes an important part of a program’s ability to target resources and interventions. To address…

Researchers at the Global Health Group, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (link is external), and the Namibia National Vector-borne Disease Control Program have published a new case study…

Last week, during the East Asia Summit in Myanmar, leaders from 18 countries in the region committed to eliminating malaria in the Asia Pacific by 2030. The landmark goal states:

On Friday, October 17th, the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) and the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA) met at the 9th Malaria Elimination Group meeting in Sri Lanka and…

The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) Surveillance and Response Training, held in Wuxi, China at the Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases (JIPD) from October 20-29, brought together…

A wide range of research on malaria elimination was showcased this year at the 63rd Annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) conference in New Orleans on November 2-5. Of note…

Last week, as world malaria experts convened in Colombo for the ninth Malaria Elimination Group meeting, we had the pleasure of getting a firsthand account of Sri Lanka's journey to becoming malaria…

October 14-17, 2014
Colombo, Sri Lanka

In two October 10 articles, The Economist explored the potential for global malaria eradication in our lifetimes. Citing the fall of malaria deaths by nearly a half since 2000 (from 850,000 deaths…

Earlier this September, global experts on malaria gathered in Geneva for the World Health Organization’s Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC). The MPAC meets twice a year to deliberate on and…

A newly released policy briefing by the Malaria Elimination Initiative documents the underlying reasons and potential dangers of resurgent malaria. When gains made in controlling malaria are not…

Malaria elimination and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: The need for measurable and achievable goals and targets

Researchers from the University of Oxford published a new article in Nature, The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015 (link is external), analyzing data…

On August 18, the first Namibia Malaria Elimination Symposium was held at the University of Namibia (UNAM), hosted by the newly-formed Namibia Malaria Elimination Research Partnership, which includes…

The Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) announced this week that Bangladesh will join the Network as its 16th Country Partner. APMEN brings together country and institutional partners to…

With the mounting threat of antimalarial drug-resistance, there is a growing interest in the use of transmission blocking drugs to not only curb the spread of resistance, but also accelerate the path…

The Global Health Group's Malaria Elimination Initiative congratulates Professor Pedro Alonso on his appointment to lead WHO's Global Malaria Program.

Researchers at the Global Health Group’s Malaria Elimination Initiative and partner institutions recently published a commentary in Malaria Journal, entitled The challenge of artemisinin resistance…

This week, researchers from the Global Health Group, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Imperial College London, and the Swaziland National Malaria Control Program published a new article in Science…

As an FDA-approved antimalarial drug that is typically used for the radical cure of P. vivax malaria, primaquine is recently seeing renewed interest as a P. falciparum transmission blocker. While…

As malaria programs shift from malaria control to elimination, increased focus on surveillance is crucial to identify and respond to remaining cases. In a new study published in PLOS Medicine, "…

On May 19th, the Elimination Eight (E8) regional initiative and the Southern African Development Community launched a malaria elimination scorecard.

As the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria begins implementing its New Funding Model (NFM), the UCSF Global Health Group’s Malaria Elimination Initiative has released two briefings…