Shrinking the Malaria Map: A Prospectus on Malaria Elimination
The Prospectus on malaria elimination aims to provide practical advice to guide countries in thinking through their decisions on whether, when, and how to eliminate malaria. It is not prescriptive, but does outline a strategic vision and serves to inform the decision-making process by providing a range of considerations that a country must evaluate in context before, during, and after the elimination decision.
The Prospectus provides detailed and informed discussion on the practical means of achieving and sustaining zero transmission. Designed as a roadmap, it is divided in two sections:
- Section 1 comprises four chapters covering the strategic components important to the periods before, during, and after an elimination program.
- Section 2 comprises six chapters that outline basic information about how interventions in an elimination program will be different from those in a control setting.
A companion document, "A Guide on Malaria Elimination for Policy Makers", is provided for those countries or agencies whose responsibility is primarily to make the policy decisions on whether to pursue or support a malaria elimination strategy.
View this Guide in RBM Toolbox.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- The Malaria Elimination Group (MEG)
- Download:
- the tool from MEG web site
- Contacts:
- Allison Philips
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- To provide practical advice to guide countries in thinking through their decisions on whether, when, and how to eliminate malaria.
- Scope of interventions
- Although primarily directed at the programs who have embarked on malaria elimination (either nationally or sub-nationally), this guide will also be useful to countries currently engaged in sustained malaria control with a view on elimination.
- Limitations
- Output
- National strategic plan for eliminating malaria
- Time frame
- When considering or embarked on malaria elimination
- Potential users
- Program managers, policymakers, government leaders
- Skills required
- No specific skills, except a basic knowledge of malaria epidemiology and of the impact of malaria interventions
- Type of software
- Adobe PDF
- User manual available?
- No
- Type and length of training required
- None
- Available languages
- English. French, Portuguese and Mandarin
- Country applications
- National strategic planning for elimination of malaria
- Last update and version
- April 2009