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Implementation and challenges to preventing the re-establishment of malaria in China in the COVID-19 era

Globalization and Health, 2022
Background The rapid emergence and global spread of COVID-19 have caused substantial global disruptions that have impacted malaria programs worldwide. Innovative strategies to enable countries aiming to eliminate malaria as well as those that are already
Guangyu Lu, Yuanyuan Cao, Dongying Zhang, Yuying Zhang, Yuhui Xu, Yan Lu, Qi Chen, Guoding Zhu, Jun Yan, Olaf Müller, Jun Cao   +10 more
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Malaria in Sri Lanka: Navigating through Prevention of Re-establishment (PoR) Phase

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2021
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Ruwanika Seneviratne
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Preventing the re-establishment of malaria in Sri Lanka amidst the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on other health programmes in countries, including on malaria, and is currently under much discussion.
Prasad Ranaweera, Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Kamini Mendis   +2 more
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Preventing the re-establishment of malaria during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka: implications for health security

Malaria Journal
Background The COVID-19 pandemic—with its first reported case in Sri Lanka in March 2020—had the potential to impact the risk of re-establishing malaria, a disease which was eliminated from Sri Lanka in 2012.
Kamini Mendis, Deepika Fernando, Prasad Ranaweera, Kumudu Gunasekera, Thilan Fernando, Gretchen Newby, Ruwanthi Perera, Amandhi Caldera, Rajitha Wickremasinghe   +8 more
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Development of WHO Recommendations for the Final Phase of Elimination and Prevention of Re-Establishment of Malaria [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg
ABSTRACT. The WHO recommends that all affected countries work toward the elimination of malaria, even those still experiencing a high burden of disease. However, malaria programs in the final phase of elimination or those working to prevent re-establishment of transmission after elimination could benefit from specific evidence-based recommendations for
Marsh K, Akl E, Achan J, Alzahrani M, Baird JK, Bousema T, Gamboa D, Lacerda M, Mendis K, Penny M, Schapira A, Sovannaroth S, Wongsrichanalai C, Tiffany A, Li X, Shutes E, Schellenberg D, Alonso P, WHO Malaria Elimination Steering Group, Lindblade KA.   +19 more
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Simulated Malaria Online Tool: an instrument for evaluating healthcare providers' practices and contributing to the evidence base for certifying malaria elimination and preventing its re-establishment

Malaria Journal
Background Healthcare providers (HCPs) practice and correct management of suspected malaria (CMSM) are central components of malaria elimination and prevention of re-establishment (POR) in countries in the elimination phase. However, knowledge of malaria
Reza Majdzadeh, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Ayat Ahmadi, Ahmad Raeisi, Hosein Azizi   +4 more
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Development of Systematic Reviews to Inform WHO's Recommendations for Elimination and Prevention of Re-Establishment of Malaria: Methodology. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg
ABSTRACT. The basis for an evidence-based recommendation is a well-conducted systematic review that synthesizes the primary literature relevant to the policy or program question of interest. In 2020, the WHO commissioned 10 systematic reviews of potential interventions in elimination or post-elimination settings to summarize their impact on malaria ...
Tusell M, Steinhardt LC, Gutman J, Schneider ZD, Bhamani B, Shah MP, Martí Coma-Cros E, Gimnig JE, Allen KC, Akl EA, Lindblade KA.   +10 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses to Inform Recommendations for the Final Phase of Elimination and Prevention of Re-Establishment of Malaria. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg
Rabinovich NR, Steketee RW.
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Poor performance of malaria rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of Plasmodium malariae among returned international travellers in China

Malaria Journal, 2023
Background Malaria is a worldwide infectious disease. For countries that have achieved malaria elimination, the prevention of re-establishment due to infections in returned travellers has become important.
Jingyao Wu, Jianxia Tang, Weiming Wang, Gangcheng Chen, Xiaoqin He, Sui Xu, Yuanyuan Cao, Yaping Gu, Guoding Zhu, Jun Cao   +9 more
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Susceptibility to malaria during the Prevention of Re-establishment phase in Sri Lanka [PDF]

, 2020
Abstract BackgroundSusceptibility to malaria is the predisposition of populations to be infectedby malaria parasites.It is influenced by the age-sex composition, parasitaemia, immunity, pregnancy status, type of residency, socio economic status, migration history of the population; broadly biological and generic factors.
Hamsananthy Jeevatharan, Wickremasinghe AR   +1 more
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