Program achieves 85% reduction in malaria cases, but does not eliminate the disease

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) The intensive implementation of currently available tools to fight malaria can achieve a drastic reduction in disease burden, but is not enough to interrupt its transmission. This is the main conclusion reached by the Mozambican Alliance Towards Elimination of Malaria (MALTEM). The MALTEM research team has just published in Plos Medicine the results from the Magude Project, a three-year intervention in southern Mozambique estimated to have avert...