Malaria control through community participation is feasible. Malaria elimination not.

Software developers often insist that what users feel is a "bug" is a "feature!" Listening to most of the current discussion of malaria interventions, one would think that community participation is a feature of many technologies. For elimination, it is not. The complexities and inconsistencies of fine-grain approaches such as IRS, ITNs and drugs require comunity participation for effect, but one should make no mistake about it: this is a bug, not a feature.