Accelerating to Zero: Strategies to Eliminate Malaria in the Peruvian Amazon.

Antonio M Quispe ; Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas ; Hugo Rodriguez ; Martin Clendenes ; Cesar Cabezas ; Luis M Leon ; Raul Chuquiyauri ; Marta Moreno ; David C Kaslow ; Max Grogl ; +6 more... Sócrates Herrera ; Alan J Magill ; Margaret Kosek ; Joseph M Vinetz ; Andres G Lescano ; Eduardo Gotuzzo ; (2016) Accelerating to Zero: Strategies to Eliminate Malaria in the Peruvian Amazon. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 94 (6). pp. 1200-1207. ISSN 0002-9637 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0369
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AbstractIn February 2014, the Malaria Elimination Working Group, in partnership with the Peruvian Ministry of Health (MoH), hosted its first international conference on malaria elimination in Iquitos, Peru. The 2-day meeting gathered 85 malaria experts, including 18 international panelists, 23 stakeholders from different malaria-endemic regions of Peru, and 11 MoH authorities. The main outcome was consensus that implementing a malaria elimination project in the Amazon region is achievable, but would require: 1) a comprehensive strategic plan, 2) the altering of current programmatic guidelines from control toward elimination by including symptomatic as well as asymptomatic individuals for antimalarial therapy and transmission-blocking interventions, and 3) the prioritization of community-based active case detection with proper rapid diagnostic tests to interrupt transmission. Elimination efforts must involve key stakeholders and experts at every level of government and include integrated research activities to evaluate, implement, and tailor sustainable interventions appropriate to the region.


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