How China vanquished malaria—and what African countries can learn from the experience
A microbiologist in China examines blood samples as part of the malaria control program December 16, 2020 – In 2010, China announced one of its most ambitious undertakings in public health: It planned to eliminate indigenous cases of malaria within a decade. The disease had a long and lethal history in the country—it’s estimated that, in 1940, China had as many as 30 million cases of malaria resulting in 300,000 deaths—and the parasite that causes it remained widespread in the early 2000s. But by leveraging technology, implementing robust surveillance strategies, and firmly integrati...
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