Open AccessOne step forward, two steps back: Tensions between malaria elimination and improved malaria surveillance in the Solomon Islands
Author(s) -
Sebastian Kevany
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
aims public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2327-8994
DOI - 10.3934/publichealth.2020067
Subject(s) - malaria , incidence (geometry) , fell , geography , demography , population , medicine , development economics , environmental health , cartography , economics , immunology , sociology , physics , optics
The Solomon Islands experienced, between 2010, an apparent meteoric fall in the level of malaria incidence and prevalence [1] . Thanks ostensibly to the efforts of bilateral and multilateral partners and donors, annual parasite incidence (API) fell from 70 to 40 per 1,000 population. With such dramatic progress, international efforts were hailed as dramatic successes and showcased as progress towards malaria elimination and eradication, Yet, paradoxically, the true caseload of malaria in the Solomon Islands has revealed a situation that calls for more, rather than less, support.