Some lessons for the future from the Global Malaria Eradication Programme (1955-1969).
Encouraged by the early success of using dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on the Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) in 1955. Fourteen years later, the campaign was discontinued when it was recognised that eradication was not...
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21311585/?tool=EBI |