TY - JOUR
KW - Infectious Diseases
KW - Parasitology
KW - Insect Science
KW - Veterinary (miscalleneous)
AU - Nadia J
AU - Lu F
AB - After decades of efforts, malaria is still the major public health problem in many countries, especially countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Mass drug administration (MDA) has been one of the interventions used to control malaria. With China, the largest and most populous country in the world, achieving malaria elimination with MDA within its strategy, knowing the history of the use of MDA, its advantages and challenges are the key to better implement MDA as a component of malaria control and elimination strategy. This narrative review focused on the use of MDA from the past to present, the experiences of successful and failed MDA intervention to control malaria, the challenges faced, as well as China's experience in malaria control and elimination. A direct search using key words and phrases was conducted using the web search engines Google and Google Scholar, peer-reviewed journal websites and PubMed database to mainly screen articles on MDA studies with positive and negatives results, including resurgence of malaria after MDA or no impact of MDA at all, WHO guidelines and other MDA-related reports. We also summarized our historical field experiences on MDA in malaria control to provide informed perspective on the challenges of MDA. Following the spirit of searching for innovative strategy to control and eliminate malaria, and based on historical experience, we put forward the potential future outlook of MDA in malaria control and elimination.
BT - Acta Tropica
DO - 10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106209
LA - eng
N2 - After decades of efforts, malaria is still the major public health problem in many countries, especially countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Mass drug administration (MDA) has been one of the interventions used to control malaria. With China, the largest and most populous country in the world, achieving malaria elimination with MDA within its strategy, knowing the history of the use of MDA, its advantages and challenges are the key to better implement MDA as a component of malaria control and elimination strategy. This narrative review focused on the use of MDA from the past to present, the experiences of successful and failed MDA intervention to control malaria, the challenges faced, as well as China's experience in malaria control and elimination. A direct search using key words and phrases was conducted using the web search engines Google and Google Scholar, peer-reviewed journal websites and PubMed database to mainly screen articles on MDA studies with positive and negatives results, including resurgence of malaria after MDA or no impact of MDA at all, WHO guidelines and other MDA-related reports. We also summarized our historical field experiences on MDA in malaria control to provide informed perspective on the challenges of MDA. Following the spirit of searching for innovative strategy to control and eliminate malaria, and based on historical experience, we put forward the potential future outlook of MDA in malaria control and elimination.
PB - Elsevier BV
PY - 2021
EP - 106209
T2 - Acta Tropica
TI - Historical Experiences on Mass Drug Administration for Malaria Control and Elimination, its Challenges and China's Experience: a Narrative Review
SN - 0001-706X
ER -