[Malaria from control to elimination in China: transition of goal, strategy and interventions].
The Malaria Elimination Action Plan has been launched in China since 2010, to pursue the goal of national wide malaria elimination by 2020. To ensure the achievement of the goal, the strategy and interventions should be transited from control to elimination, based on the better understanding of malaria elimination. In this article, we delineate the difference between malaria control and elimination phase, and explain the importance of transition of the goal, strategy and interventions from control to elimination, also decrypt the background, definition, critical points and challenges of China's current malaria elimination strategy and interventions, to improve health workers' understanding and implementation of national elimination program at different levels, and eventually impact the progress of national elimination program.
Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention (Ministry of Health), Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Parasite Molecular Biology, Wuxi 214064, China.
Jun
J
Cao
National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Centre for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, China.
Shui-sen
SS
Zhou
Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention (Ministry of Health), Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Parasite Molecular Biology, Wuxi 214064, China.
Hua-yun
HY
Zhou
Zhong-shan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Yuxin-Bing
YB
Yu
National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Centre for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, China.
Lin-hua
LH
Tang
Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention (Ministry of Health), Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Parasite Molecular Biology, Wuxi 214064, China.
Qi
Q
Gao
D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000517:prevention & control*