Malaria in the Americas: Trends from 1959 to 2011

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 302-316

  Carter, Keith H ^a   Singh, Prabhjot ^a   Mujica, Oscar J ^a   Escalada, Rainier P ^a   Ade, Maria Paz ^a   Castellanos, Luis Gerardo ^a   Espinal, Marcos A ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; TREND STUDY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; CARIBBEAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MEXICO; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

CARIBBEAN REGION; CENTRAL AMERICA; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MEXICO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84922333358     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: 14761645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0368     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Pan American Health Organization, 1992. Pro Salute Novi Mundi: AHistory of the Pan American Health Organization. Washington, DC: PAHO.
2. World Health Organization, 2012. World Malaria Report: 2012. Geneva: WHO Press.
3. Hotez PJ, Bottazzi ME, Franco-Paredes C, Ault SK, Periago MR, 2008. The neglected tropical diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of disease burden and distribution and a roadmap for control and elimination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2:e300.
4. World Health Organization, 2008. Global Malaria Control and Elimination: Report of a Technical Review. Geneva: World Health Organization, 54.
5. Najera JA, Gonzalez-Silva M, Alonso PL, 2011. Some lessons for the future from the Global Malaria Eradication Programme (1955-1969). PLoS Med 8:e1000412.
6. Carter R, Mendis KN, 2002. Evolutionary and historical aspects of the burden of malaria. Clin Microbiol Rev 15:564-594.
7. Kidson C, 1992. Global malaria challenge: the Amsterdam summit. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 23:635-640.
8. Pan American Health Organization, 2000. CD42. R15-Roll Back Malaria in the Americas. The 42nd Directing Council. Washington, DC: PAHO, 2.
9. United Nations General Assembly, 2001. 55/284-2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa. Proceedings of the 55th Session of the General Assembly; New York, NY, September 28, 2001.
10. United Nations General Assembly, 2012. 66/289-Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015. Proceedings of the 66th Session of the General Assembly, New York, NY, October 15, 2012.
11. Regional Malaria Program, 2006. Regional Strategic Plan for Malaria in the Americas, 2006-2010. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization.
12. Pan American Health Organization, 2011. CD;51/11-Strategy and Plan for Action for Malaria. 51st Directing Council. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization.
13. Oliveira-Ferreira J, Lacerda MV, Brasil P, Ladislau JL, Tauil PL, Daniel-Ribeiro CT, 2010. Malaria in Brazil: an overview. Malar J 9:115.
14. Murray CJ, Rosenfeld LC, Lim SS, Andrews KG, Foreman KJ, Haring D, Fullman N, Naghavi M, Lozano R, Lopez AD, 2012. Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet 379:413-431.
15. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division, 2011. World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision, CD-ROMEd. New York, NY: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division.
16. Kim HJ, Fay MP, Feuer EJ, Midthune DN, 2000. Permutation tests for joinpoint regression with applications to cancer rates. Stat Med 19:335-351.
17. Statistical Methodology and Applications Branch, Surveillance Research Program, National Cancer Institute, 2012. Joinpoint Regression Program, Version 4.0. Calverton, MD: National Cancer Institute.
18. Pan American Health Organization, 1979. Status of malaria programs in the Americas, XXVII report. XXVI Meeting of the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization and the XXXI Meeting of the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization.
19. Rozendaal JA, 1991. Epidemiology and control of malaria in Suriname. Bull Pan Am Health Organ 25:336-355.
20. Pan American Health Organization, 2000. Roll Back Malaria in Meso America. Proceedings of the Meeting in the Dominican Republic with the Participation of Central America Countries, Mexico, Haiti and Dominican Republic; San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, November 24, 2000.
21. Garfield R, 1999. Malaria control in Nicaragua: social and political influences on disease transmission and control activities. Lancet 354:414-418.
22. Najera J, 1999. Malaria Control: Achievements Problems & Strategies. Geneva: World Health Organization, 126.
23. Saenz R, Bissell RA, Paniagua F, 1995. Post-disaster malaria in Costa Rica. Prehosp Disaster Med 10:154-160.
24. Roberts DR, Laughlin LL, Hsheih P, Legters LJ, 1997. DDT, global strategies, and a malaria control crisis in South America. Emerg Infect Dis 3:295.
25. Pan American Health Organization, 2000. Roll Back Malaria initiative in the tropical forest area of South America. Proceedings of the Meeting in Colombia with the Participation of South American Countries; Cartagena, Colombia, August 25, 2000.
26. Bouma MJ, Dye C, 1997. Cycles of malaria associated with El Niño in Venezuela. JAMA 278:1772-1774.
27. Gagnon AS, Smoyer-Tomic KE, Bush AB, 2002. The El Niño southern oscillation and malaria epidemics in South America. Int J Biometeorol 46:81-89.
28. Bouma M, Poveda G, Rojas W, Chavasse D, Quinones M, Cox J, Patz J, 1997. Predicting high-risk years for malaria in Colombia using parameters of El Niño Southern Oscillation. Trop Med Int Health 2:1122-1127.
29. Pan American Health Organization, 1999. Report on the status of malaria in the Americas, 1999. Proceedings of the 41st Session of the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization and the 51st Session of the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization; San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 27-October 1, 1999.
30. World Health Organization, 2010. Global Report on Antimalarial Efficacy and Drug Resistance: 2000-2010. Geneva: World Health Organization.
31. Rodríguez-Morales AJ, Delgado L, Martínez N, Franco-Paredes C, 2006. Impact of imported malaria on the burden of disease in northeastern Venezuela. J Travel Med 13:15-20.
32. Moreno J, Rubio-Palis Y, Páez E, Pérez E, Sánchez V, 2007. Abundance, biting behaviour and parous rate of anopheline mosquito species in relation to malaria incidence in gold-mining areas of southern Venezuela. Med Vet Entomol 21:339-349.
33. Barbieri AF, Sawyer DO, 2007. Heterogeneity of malaria prevalence in alluvial gold mining areas in Northern Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Cad Saude Publica 23:2878-2886.
34. Da Silva NS, da Silva-Nunes M, Malafronte RS, Menezes MJ, D'Arcadia RR, Komatsu NT, Scopel KK, Braga É M, Cavasini CE, Cordeiro JA, 2010. Epidemiology and control of frontier malaria in Brazil: lessons from community-based studies in rural Amazonia. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 104:343-350.
35. Ferreira MU, da Silva-Nunes M, 2010. Evidence-based public health and prospects for malaria control in Brazil. J Infect Dev Ctries 4:533-545.
36. Mateus JC, Carrasquilla G, 2011. Predictors of local malaria outbreaks: An approach to the development of an early warning system in Colombia. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 106:107-113.
37. Fundación para la Investigación y Desarrollo de la Salud y la Seguridad Social, 2007. El Impacto de las Reformas en Salud en Colombia, Ecuador, Peru y Venezuela en la situation de Malaria. Control de la Malaria en Zonas Fronterizas de los Países Andinos: Un enfoque comunitario-PAMAFRO. Bogota, Columbia: Organismo Andino de Salud/Convenio Hipólito Unanue, 122.
38. Anonymous, 1991. Epidemiological stratification of malaria in the region of the Americas. Epidemiol Bull 12:1-16.
39. Webster-Kerr K, Peter Figueroa J, Weir PL, Lewis-Bell K, Baker E, Horner-Bryce J, Lewis-Fuller E, Bullock DuCasse M, Carter KH, Campbell-Forrester S, 2011. Success in controlling a major outbreak of malaria because of Plasmodium falciparum in Jamaica. Trop Med Int Health 16:298-306.
40. Hernández-Avila JE, Rodríguez MH, Betanzos-Reyes AF, Danis-Lozano R, Méndez-Galván JF, Velázquez-Monroy OJ, Tapia-Conyer R, 2006. Determinant factors for malaria transmission on the coast of Oaxaca State, the main residual transmission focus in Mexico. Salud Publica Mex 48:405-417.
41. Ávila-Agüero ML, 2008. Epidemiología de la malaria en Costa Rica. Acta Med Costarric 50:72-74.
42. Consejo de Ministros de Salud de Centroamé rica y Repú blica Dominicana (COMISCA), 2013. Declaración-Hacia la eliminación de la malaria en Mesoamérica y la Isla de la Espanõla en el 2020. San José, Costa Rica: XXXVIII Reunión Ordinaria del COMISCA.
43. Gestion de Datos Epidemiologicos D, 2012. Boletin Informativo Semanal del SENEPA. Sem Epidemiol 51. Available at: http://www.mspbs.gov. py/senepa/paludismo/. Accessed April 24, 2013.
44. Pan American Health Organization, 2012. PAHO Honors 2012 Malaria Champions of the Americas. Available at: http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com-content&view=article& id=7429&Itemid=39639&lang=en. Accessed March 23, 2013.
45. White NJ, 2011. Determinants of relapse periodicity in Plasmodium vivax malaria. Malar J 10:297.
46. Chaparro P, Padilla J, 2012. Mortalidad por paludismo en Colombia, 1979-2008. Biomedica 32:95-105.
47. Bosetti C, Bertuccio P, Levi F, Lucchini F, Negri E, La Vecchia C, 2008. Cancer mortality in the European Union, 1970-2003, with a joinpoint analysis. Ann Oncol 19:631-640.
48. Cayuela A, Rodriguez-Dominguez S, Lopez-Campos JL, Otero Candelera R, Rodriguez Matutes C, 2004. Joinpoint regression analysis of lung cancer mortality, Andalusia 1975-2000. Ann Oncol 15:793-796.
49. Chen HS, Portier K, Ghosh K, Naishadham D, Kim HJ, Zhu L, Pickle LW, Krapcho M, Scoppa S, Jemal A, Feuer EJ, 2012. Predicting US- and state-level cancer counts for the current calendar year. Part I: evaluation of temporal projection methods for mortality. Cancer 118:1091-1099.
50. Fernandez E, Gonzalez JR, Borras JM, Moreno V, Sanchez V, Peris M, 2001. Recent decline in cancer mortality in Catalonia (Spain). A joinpoint regression analysis. Eur J Cancer 37:2222-2228.
51. Jung KW, Shin HR, Kong HJ, Park S, Won YJ, Choi KS, Park EC, 2010. Long-term trends in cancer mortality in Korea (1983-2007): a joinpoint regression analysis. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 11:1451-1457.
52. Kisic Tepavcevic D, Matejic B, Gazibara T, Pekmezovic T, 2011. Trends and patterns of ovarian cancer mortality in Belgrade, Serbia: a joinpoint regression analysis. Int J Gynecol Cancer 21:1018-1023.
53. Jensen TP, Bukirwa H, Njama-Meya D, Francis D, Kamya MR, Rosenthal PJ, Dorsey G, 2009. Use of the slide positivity rate to estimate changes in malaria incidence in a cohort of Ugandan children. Malar J 8:213.
54. Schneider D, Evering-Watley M, Walke H, Bloland P, 2011. Training the global public health workforce through applied epidemiology training programs: CDC's experience, 1951-2011. Public Health Rev 33:190-203.
55. Lescano AG, Salmon-Mulanovich G, Pedroni E, Blazes DL, 2007. Epidemiology. Outbreak investigation and response training. Science 318:574-575.
56. Korenromp EL, Hosseini M, Newman RD, Cibulskis RE, 2013. Progress towards malaria control targets in relation to national malaria programme funding. Malar J 12:18.
57. Regional Malaria Program, 2010. Report on the Situation of Malaria in the Americas 2008. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization.
58. Pan American Health Organization, 2013. PAHO/WHO to Support Guyana and Suriname in Studies of Resistance to Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy (ACT). Available at: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com-content&view=article&id=8636%3Apahowho-to-support-guyana-and-surinameinstudies-of-resistance-to-artemisinin-based-combination-therapyact&catid=1443%3Anews-front-page-items&Itemid=1926&lang=en. Accessed August 29, 2013.
59. WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and Secretariat, 2013. Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of March 2013 meeting. Malar J 12:213.