CDC's malaria research

For more than 60 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been a leader in the fight against malaria since successfully eliminating it in the United States. Building on that success, CDC experts continue to develop and evaluate malaria control interventions to reduce malaria illness and death and ultimately to eliminate malaria globally. CDC\u2019s strategic research helped develop and evaluate each of the effective tools now used throughout the world to prevent and control malaria:\u2022 Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs)\u2022 Intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women (IPTp)\u2022 Improved management of malaria illness with rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and artemisinin-containing combination therapies (ACTs)\u2022 Indoor residual spraying (IRS)Massive scale-up of these proven interventions in the last decade has led to unprecedented gains in the fight against malaria. From 2000 to 2015, 6.2 million lives were saved globally, and malaria deaths in Africa were cut by more than half.CS246824Dcdc_malaria_research_508.pdf201