Identifying and combating the impacts of COVID-19 on malaria

SJ Rogerson; JG Beeson; M Laman; JR Poespoprodjo; T William; JA Simpson; RN Price; N Anstey; F Fowkes; J McCarthy; J McCaw; I Mueller; P Gething

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Identifying and combating the impacts of COVID-19 on malaria

SJ Rogerson, JG Beeson, M Laman, JR Poespoprodjo, T William, JA Simpson, RN Price, N Anstey, F Fowkes, J McCarthy, J McCaw, I Mueller, P Gething

BMC Medicine | BMC | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01710-x

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Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of infections, hundreds of thousands of deaths and major societal disruption due to lockdowns and other restrictions introduced to limit disease spread. Relatively little attention has been paid to understanding how the pandemic has affected treatment, prevention and control of malaria, which is a major cause of death and disease and predominantly affects people in less well-resourced settings. Main body: Recent successes in malaria control and elimination have reduced the global malaria burden, but these gains are fragile and progress has stalled in the past 5 years. Withdrawing successful interventions often results in rapid malari..

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Funding Acknowledgements

Funding for the authors was provided by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (Investigator Grant 1173046 to JGB, Senior Research Fellowship 1104975to JAS, Program Grant 1092789 to SJR and JGB, Project Grant 1143946 to SJR and Project Grant JAS 1100394) and the Wellcome Trust (Senior Clinical Fellowship 200909 to RNP). The Burnet Institute is supported by the NHMRC Independent Research Institute Infrastructure Support Scheme and a Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure grant. All authors are members of the NHMRC-funded Centre for Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination (1134989).