Effectiveness of joint 3 + 1 malaria strategy along China-Myanmar cross border areas.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cross-border malaria in Laiza City of Myanmar seriously affected Yingjiang County of China and compromised reaching the goal of malaria elimination by 2020. Since 2017, a pilot project on 3 + 1 strategy of joint cross-border malaria prevention and control was carried out for building a malaria buffer in these border areas. Here, 3 were the three preventive lines in China where different focalized approaches of malaria elimination were applied and + 1 was a defined border area in Myanmar where the integrated measures of malaria control were adopted.

Methods

A 5-year retrospective analysis (2015 to 2019) was conducted that included case detection, parasite prevalence and vector surveillance. Descriptive statistics was used and the incidence or rates were compared. T

SUBMITTER: Lin ZR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8670156 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature