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ReviewThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2016

Malaria elimination in India and regional implications.

Kinley Wangdi, Michelle L Gatton, Gerard C Kelly, Cathy Banwell, Vas Dev, Archie C A Clements

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Review in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kinley WangdiResearch School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Phuentsholing General Hospital, Phuentsholing, Bhutan. Electronic address: dockinley@gmail.com.
Michelle L GattonSchool of Public Health & Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Gerard C KellyResearch School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Cathy BanwellResearch School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Vas DevNational Institute of Malaria Research (ICMR), Guwahati, Assam, India.
Archie C A ClementsResearch School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The malaria situation in India is complex as a result of diverse socio-environmental conditions. India contributes a substantial burden of malaria outside sub-Saharan Africa, with the third highest Plasmodium vivax prevalence in the world. Successful malaria control in India is likely to enhance malaria elimination efforts in the region. Despite modest gains, there are many challenges for malaria elimination in India, including: varied patterns of malaria transmission in different parts of the country demanding area-specific control measures; intense malaria transmission fuelled by favourable climatic and environment factors; varying degrees of insecticide resistance of vectors; antimalarial drug resistance; a weak surveillance system; and poor national coordination of state programmes. Prevention and protection against malaria are low as a result of a weak health-care system, as well as financial and socioeconomic constraints. Additionally, the open borders of India provide a potential route of entry for artesunate-resistant parasites from southeast Asia. This situation calls for urgent dialogue around tackling malaria across borders-between India's states and neighbouring countries-through sharing of information and coordinated control and preventive measures, if we are to achieve the aim of malaria elimination in the region.

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ClimateDrug Resistance, MultipleAnimalsAntimalarialsDelivery of Health CareDisease Transmission, InfectiousHumansIndiaInternational CooperationMalariaPlasmodium vivaxAntimalarials

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PMID27527748

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