Overlaying COVID-19 mitigation plans on malaria control infrastructures
Manju Rahi, Rajendra Kumar Baharia, Payal Das, Jyoti Chhibber‐Goel, Amit Sharma
2020Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene20 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF
Abstract
To counter the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, each country must design sustainable control plans given the inherent disparities in wealth and healthcare systems. Most malaria-endemic countries run well-entrenched malaria control programs via their established frameworks for diagnosis, case management, treatment and overall surveillance. We propose that the malaria control infrastructures can be partially co-opted for launching sustainable COVID-19 mitigation plans.
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MalariaCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PandemicControl (management)Healthcare system2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)BusinessEnvironmental planningDisease controlEnvironmental resource managementHealth careMedicineDiseaseEnvironmental healthGeographyEconomic growthComputer scienceInfectious disease (medical specialty)VirologyEconomicsImmunologyOutbreakArtificial intelligencePathologyMosquito-borne diseases and controlCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesMalaria Research and Control