Cao Jun, Zhou Shui-sen, Zhou Hua-yun, Yu Yuxin-Bing, Tang Lin-hua, Gao Qi
Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention (Ministry of Health), Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Parasite Molecular Biology, Wuxi 214064, China.
National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Centre for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, China.
Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi. 2013 Oct;25(5):439-43.
The Malaria Elimination Action Plan has been launched in China since 2010, to pursue the goal of national wide malaria elimination by 2020. To ensure the achievement of the goal, the strategy and interventions should be transited from control to elimination, based on the better understanding of malaria elimination. In this article, we delineate the difference between malaria control and elimination phase, and explain the importance of transition of the goal, strategy and interventions from control to elimination, also decrypt the background, definition, critical points and challenges of China's current malaria elimination strategy and interventions, to improve health workers' understanding and implementation of national elimination program at different levels, and eventually impact the progress of national elimination program.
中国自2010年起启动了《消除疟疾行动计划》，以实现到2020年全国消除疟疾的目标。为确保实现这一目标，应在更好地理解消除疟疾的基础上，将策略和干预措施从控制转向消除。在本文中，我们阐述了疟疾控制阶段和消除阶段的差异，解释了目标、策略和干预措施从控制转向消除的重要性，还解读了中国当前疟疾消除策略和干预措施的背景、定义、关键点及挑战，以提高各级卫生工作者对国家消除计划的理解和实施能力，最终影响国家消除计划的进程。
