The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on malaria elimination

doi:10.1016/j.parepi.2020.e00187

Review

. 2020 Nov:11:e00187.

doi: 10.1016/j.parepi.2020.e00187. Epub 2020 Oct 20.

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on malaria elimination

Ayat Zawawi¹, Maimonah Alghanmi^{1

2}, Isra Alsaady^{1

2}, Hattan Gattan^{1

2}, Haytham Zakai¹, Kevin Couper³

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
² Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahad Medical Research center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33102823
PMCID: PMC7574840
DOI: 10.1016/j.parepi.2020.e00187

Review

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on malaria elimination

Ayat Zawawi et al. Parasite Epidemiol Control. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov:11:e00187.

doi: 10.1016/j.parepi.2020.e00187. Epub 2020 Oct 20.

Authors

Ayat Zawawi¹, Maimonah Alghanmi^{1

2}, Isra Alsaady^{1

2}, Hattan Gattan^{1

2}, Haytham Zakai¹, Kevin Couper³

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
² Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahad Medical Research center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33102823
PMCID: PMC7574840
DOI: 10.1016/j.parepi.2020.e00187

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 has spread throughout the world and become the cause of the infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As low- and middle-income countries shift increasingly to focus on identifying and treating COVID-19, questions are emerging about the impact this shift in focus will have on ongoing efforts to control other infectious diseases, such as malaria. This review discusses how the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in low- and middle-income countries might impact these efforts, focusing in particular on the effects of co-infection and the use of antimalarial drugs used to treat malaria as therapeutic interventions for COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Elimination; Malaria; Plasmodium; SARS-CoV-2.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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