Transformative tools for malaria elimination

Advancing from malaria control (reducing malaria burden to a level where it is no longer a public health problem) to malaria elimination (reducing the incidence of malaria parasite infection to zero local transmission through targeted efforts within a defined geographical area) will require a sustained, long-term, well-planned effort to increase coverage of existing interventions. However, even optimal application of currently available tools may not be adequate to achieve elimination goals in some endemic areas. This document provides an overview of the next generation of transformative tools currently being developed that hold the potential to accelerate efforts toward the elimination, and eventual global eradication, of malaria.