Research priorities for malaria elimination.

摘要

The Lancet's four-paper Series examines the need for, and prospects of, malaria elimination. The papers make sobering reading. Elimination will be hard work, it will take a long time, and it will be expensive. Moreover, elimination requires that we first control malaria to the point where it is no longer a public health problem, and this is by far the most important, immediate target for increased and sustained international investment. Nonetheless, elimination (and eventually eradication) is still important as a long-term goal, both for countries that are currently or will shortly be in a position to consider it, and worldwide. One of the most positive effects of the renewed focus has been to galvanise the research community through the Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA), a process that has developed a remarkable consensus for reformulating the entire malaria research agenda. malERA will soon launch its detailed conclusions of a long-term agenda for everything from basic science to operational research, but in light of this Series, what research priorities are specific to elimination right now?