Malaria elimination – is it a goal too far?

Bill and Melinda Gates called for the world to work towards malaria elimination in 2007. A series of papers in the Lancet medical journal today investigate whether it is feasible and affordable – and whether in some countries control is the best policy Ancient foe … the malaria-carrying mosquito. Photograph: PA Should we be trying to eliminate malaria? It’s not a question you would think anybody would ask. Of course – surely – after all, it was eliminated in the UK and the USA in the 1950s. It can be done and should be done in a just world. That was probably the public reaction to the call by Bill and Melinda Gates for malaria elimination in 2007, which was swiftly backed by the World…

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Malaria elimination – is it a goal too far?

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