cure

After the 2007 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation meeting at which malaria eradication was declared back on the table [1], the charity was joined in its call by the World Health Organization (WHO) director general, the United States National Institutes of Health, and the Clinton Foundation, among others.

As we close the gaps in the fight against global malaria, the question of cerebral malaria mortality remains a source of great concern.

Decisions to eliminate malaria from all or part of a country involve a complex set of factors, and this complexity is compounded by ambiguity surrounding some of the key terminology, most notably "control" and "elimination."