Prioritizing the scale-up of interventions for malaria control and elimination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A core set of intervention and treatment options are recommended by the World Health Organization for use against falciparum malaria. These are treatment, long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor residual spraying, and chemoprevention options. Both domestic and foreign aid funding for these tools is limited. When faced with budget restrictions, the introduction and scale-up of intervention and treatment options must be prioritized.

Methods

Estimates of the cost and impact of different interventions were combined with a mathematical model of malaria transmission to estimate the most cost-effective prioritization of interventions. The incremental cost effectiveness ratio was used to select between scaling coverage of current interventions or the introductio

SUBMITTER: Winskill P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454681 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature