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A new global malaria eradication strategy [1]

On Oct 17, 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates called for complete eradication to be adopted as the new goal for the age-old fight against malaria, with the Director General of WHO, Margaret Chan, promptly echoing their conviction. Although debate over the wisdom of this target will continue, growing impatience with the low ambitions of current efforts, fuelled by reductions in morbidity and mortality in some countries and progress in the development of new drugs and the first-ever vaccine, will lead many decision makers to adopt eradication of malaria as the primary aim for their organisations.

Publication Date: 
10/05/2008
Richard Feachem [2], Oliver Sabot [3]
Lancet [4]
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Malaria [5], Health Care [6], Health Policy [7], Vector Control [8], Vector Borne Diseases [9], WHO [10], Africa [11]
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