[Malaria from control to elimination in China: transition of goal, strategy and interventions]

Abstract

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.