Despite malaria being a treatable and preventable disease, it nevertheless results in approximately 249 million cases globally. Over the past decade, significant strides have been taken towards reducing the prevalence of malaria in various WHO regions such as South-East Asia and the Americas. However, the burden of this disease continues to escalate in the Eastern Mediterranean and certain parts of the WHO's African regions. The propensity for infection is heightened amongst pregnant women, children aged 2-5 years, mine workers, armed forces deployed in conflicted areas and indigenous populations in remote and heavily forested areas.
Control of malaria poses emerging challenges, including drug resistance, deletion of HRP-2/HRP-3 in parasites, transmission of zoonotic malaria parasites, and socio-environmental factors such as climate change and rapid urbanization.
We would like to give the opportunity to different malaria researchers around the globe to highlight successful malaria control stories, and present opportunities and challenges in malaria control from different parts of the world. Working in six different WHO regions to share their impressive gains in malaria control and new knowledge generated and innovative ways in the recent past to deal with the problem. We would encourage their stories of controlling malaria in small pocket/region/targeted and vulnerable populations using different methods. Such successful stories would be very useful from a malaria elimination point of view.
This Research Topic collection will spotlight successful malaria control endeavors from diverse global regions and isolated regions with varying levels of malaria transmission, where significant reductions in local malaria cases have been achieved through various approaches. The following article themes will be welcomed, but not limited to:
- Control efforts contributing to the decline of malaria with baseline and endpoint corporate baseline and endpoint malaria prevalence data.
- Prompt diagnosis and treatment or mass screening and treatment.
- Innovative diagnostic methods.
- Preventive treatment.
- Integrated vector management strategies (such as indoor residual spraying, biological control, insecticide-treated nets, and long-lasting insecticide treated nets).
-Community participation and mobilization.
- New policies, basic infrastructural development, and analyses at local, state, and national levels that could empower high-risk group communities to be more resilient against diseases such as malaria and other vector-borne diseases.
Keywords:
Malaria, Control, Methods, Hypoendemic, Mesoendemic and Hyperendemic Areas, High Risk Groups
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Despite malaria being a treatable and preventable disease, it nevertheless results in approximately 249 million cases globally. Over the past decade, significant strides have been taken towards reducing the prevalence of malaria in various WHO regions such as South-East Asia and the Americas. However, the burden of this disease continues to escalate in the Eastern Mediterranean and certain parts of the WHO's African regions. The propensity for infection is heightened amongst pregnant women, children aged 2-5 years, mine workers, armed forces deployed in conflicted areas and indigenous populations in remote and heavily forested areas.
Control of malaria poses emerging challenges, including drug resistance, deletion of HRP-2/HRP-3 in parasites, transmission of zoonotic malaria parasites, and socio-environmental factors such as climate change and rapid urbanization.
We would like to give the opportunity to different malaria researchers around the globe to highlight successful malaria control stories, and present opportunities and challenges in malaria control from different parts of the world. Working in six different WHO regions to share their impressive gains in malaria control and new knowledge generated and innovative ways in the recent past to deal with the problem. We would encourage their stories of controlling malaria in small pocket/region/targeted and vulnerable populations using different methods. Such successful stories would be very useful from a malaria elimination point of view.
This Research Topic collection will spotlight successful malaria control endeavors from diverse global regions and isolated regions with varying levels of malaria transmission, where significant reductions in local malaria cases have been achieved through various approaches. The following article themes will be welcomed, but not limited to:
- Control efforts contributing to the decline of malaria with baseline and endpoint corporate baseline and endpoint malaria prevalence data.
- Prompt diagnosis and treatment or mass screening and treatment.
- Innovative diagnostic methods.
- Preventive treatment.
- Integrated vector management strategies (such as indoor residual spraying, biological control, insecticide-treated nets, and long-lasting insecticide treated nets).
-Community participation and mobilization.
- New policies, basic infrastructural development, and analyses at local, state, and national levels that could empower high-risk group communities to be more resilient against diseases such as malaria and other vector-borne diseases.
Keywords:
Malaria, Control, Methods, Hypoendemic, Mesoendemic and Hyperendemic Areas, High Risk Groups
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.