A multiphase program for malaria elimination in southern Mozambique (the Magude project): A before-after study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria eradication remains the long-term vision of the World Health Organization (WHO). However, whether malaria elimination is feasible in areas of stable transmission in sub-Saharan Africa with currently available tools remains a subject of debate. This study aimed to evaluate a multiphased malaria elimination project to interrupt Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission in a rural district of southern Mozambique.

Methods and findings

A before-after study was conducted between 2015 and 2018 in the district of Magude, with 48,448 residents living in 10,965 households. Building on an enhanced surveillance system, two rounds of mass drug administrations (MDAs) per year over two years (phase I, August 2015-2017), followed by one year of reactive focal mass drug a

SUBMITTER: Galatas B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7428052 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature