Ready for malaria elimination: zero indigenous case reported in the People's Republic of China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria was once one of the most serious public health problems in China. However, the disease burden has sharply declined and epidemic areas have shrunk after the implementation of an integrated malaria control and elimination strategy, especially since 2000. In this review, the lessons were distilled from the Chinese national malaria elimination programme and further efforts to mitigate the challenges of malaria resurgence are being discussed.

Methods

A retrospective evaluation was performed to assess the changes in malaria epidemic patterns from 1950 to 2017 at national level. The malaria data before 2004 were collected from paper-based annual reports. After 2004, each of the different cases from the Infectious Diseases Information Reporting Management System (

SUBMITTER: Feng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6116478 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature