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  • * Tropical Medicine
  • * Infectious Diseases
  • * Public Health

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  • * Brazil accounts for 42% of malaria cases in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • * Malaria burden in Brazil reached a 35-year low in 2014, with transmission concentrated in the Amazon Basin.
  • * Plasmodium falciparum malaria is focal, and transmission boundaries have significantly decreased.

Purpose of the Study:

  • * To review lessons learned from past and current malaria control policies in Brazil.
  • * To discuss scientific and logistic challenges impacting malaria elimination efforts.
  • * To inform the national Plan for Malaria Elimination launched in November 2015.

Main Methods:

  • * Review of historical and current malaria control policies and data in Brazil.
  • * Analysis of scientific and logistical challenges for malaria elimination.
  • * Discussion of factors influencing malaria transmission and control.

Main Results:

  • * Significant reduction in malaria cases and deaths, reaching a 35-year low in 2014.
  • * Persistent challenges include asymptomatic/submicroscopic infections, antimalarial drug resistance (P. falciparum, P. vivax), and lack of effective anti-relapse drugs.
  • * Other challenges include malaria in pregnancy, variable Anopheles vector behavior, human mobility, surveillance needs in low-transmission areas, and environmental/climatic influences.

Conclusions:

  • * Malaria elimination in Brazil is feasible but requires addressing complex challenges.
  • * Lessons learned and strategies developed in Brazil can inform malaria control in other Americas countries.
  • * Effective control necessitates integrated approaches considering drug resistance, vector behavior, and socioeconomic factors.