Global Malaria Action Plan

Also known as: GMAP

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The Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP) is a strategy to reduce malaria worldwide, focusing on control, elimination, and research. Malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, affects over 100 countries and causes nearly 900,000 deaths annually. While preventable with medicines and protective measures like insecticide-treated bed nets, progress has been slowed by funding and healthcare challenges. The long-term goal of GMAP was global eradication by 2015, though this has been revised to 2050. World Malaria Day, observed on April 25, raises awareness and promotes efforts to combat the disease.1

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…prompted the formation of the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP), an aggressive unified strategy designed to reduce the incidence of malaria worldwide. The three components of this strategy are control, elimination, and research. Research to develop new drugs and new approaches to prevention is fundamental to efforts aimed at first…
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…prompted the formation of the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP), an aggressive unified strategy designed to reduce the incidence of malaria worldwide. The three components of this strategy are control, elimination, and research. Research to develop new drugs and new approaches to prevention is fundamental to efforts aimed at first…
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