Malaria control and elimination in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea: Multidisciplinary and collaborative research with island communities, 1985–2024

IF 1.5 4区医学 Q3 PARASITOLOGY

Parasitology International Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI:10.1016/j.parint.2025.103111

Chim W. Chan , Akira Kaneko

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Sustained research and community engagement are essential to effective malaria control and elimination. In this article, we describe our research activities in Oceania since 1985 and highlight their contribution to our understanding of malaria epidemiology and control. Working in close collaboration with the local communities and the Ministries of Health in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, our multidisciplinary projects have employed both field and laboratory methods to cover a wide range of topics including intervention implementation and evaluation, social barriers to adoption of interventions, molecular and population genetics of Plasmodium, Anopheles, and humans, and serological markers of malaria transmission and vector exposure. Findings from these studies have enhanced our knowledge of different facets of malaria and informed control interventions toward elimination not only in Oceania but also other endemic areas where elimination is targeted. Recent resurgences of P. vivax in Vanuatu highlight the need for continuing collaborative research to achieve sustainable freedom from malaria.

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瓦努阿图和巴布亚新几内亚的疟疾控制和消除：1985-2024年与岛屿社区的多学科和合作研究

持续的研究和社区参与对于有效控制和消除疟疾至关重要。在这篇文章中，我们描述了自1985年以来我们在大洋洲的研究活动，并强调了他们对我们了解疟疾流行病学和控制的贡献。我们的多学科项目与巴布亚新几内亚和瓦努阿图的当地社区和卫生部密切合作，采用实地和实验室方法，涵盖广泛的主题，包括干预措施的实施和评估、采取干预措施的社会障碍、疟原虫、按蚊和人类的分子和种群遗传学，以及疟疾传播和媒介接触的血清学标记。这些研究的结果增强了我们对疟疾不同方面的认识，不仅在大洋洲，而且在以消除疟疾为目标的其他流行地区，对消除疟疾采取知情的控制干预措施。瓦努阿图最近再次出现间日疟，这突出表明需要继续开展合作研究，以实现可持续地摆脱疟疾。

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Parasitology International 医学-寄生虫学

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4.00

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10.50%

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140

审稿时长

61 days

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