A malaria-free China: global importance and key experience

Jian-Hai Yin; Christian Lengeler; Marcel Tanner; Xiao-Nong Zhou

doi:10.1016/S0065-308X(22)00027-6

A malaria-free China: global importance and key experience

Adv Parasitol. 2022:116:xv-xix. doi: 10.1016/S0065-308X(22)00027-6.

Authors

Jian-Hai Yin¹, Christian Lengeler², Marcel Tanner², Xiao-Nong Zhou³

Affiliations

¹ National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research), NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Shanghai, PR China.
² Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research), NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Shanghai, PR China; School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China. Electronic address: zhouhn66@163.com.

PMID: 35752451
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(22)00027-6

Abstract

Malaria has a worldwide distribution and is the world's deadliest mosquito-borne disease. The goal of malaria elimination is also reflected in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030 issued by the World Health Organization (WHO). China succeeded in its malaria elimination programme after being certified as malaria-free by the WHO on 30 June 2021. Therefore, we document some of the key lessons learnt in the course of the malaria elimination effort in China in this special volume, showing how different strategies made elimination feasible in different subregions of China with different epidemiological and socioeconomic characteristics, in order to present strong signals to other malaria-endemic countries that malaria elimination is feasible within one generation.

Keywords: China; Elimination; Lessons; Malaria; Strategy.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Animals
China / epidemiology
Malaria* / epidemiology
Malaria* / prevention & control