Malaria Journal
Volume 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-17

Surveillance and response for high-risk populations: what can malaria elimination programmes learn from the experience of HIV? (Review) (Open Access)

Jacobson J.O. , Cueto C. , Smith J.L. , Hwang J. , Gosling R. , Bennett A.*
  • a Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States
  • b Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States
  • c Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States
  • d Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States, US President’s Malaria Initiative, Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States
  • e Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States
  • f Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, 550 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States

Abstract

To eliminate malaria, malaria programmes need to develop new strategies for surveillance and response appropriate for the changing epidemiology that accompanies transmission decline, in which transmission is increasingly driven by population subgroups whose behaviours place them at increased exposure. Conventional tools of malaria surveillance and response are likely not sufficient in many elimination settings for accessing high-risk population subgroups, such as mobile and migrant populations (MMPs), given their greater likelihood of asymptomatic infections, illegal risk behaviours, limited access to public health facilities, and high mobility including extended periods travelling away from home. More adaptive, targeted strategies are needed to monitor transmission and intervention coverage effectively in these groups. Much can be learned from HIV programmes’ experience with “second generation surveillance”, including how to rapidly adapt surveillance and response strategies to changing transmission patterns, biological and behavioural surveys that utilize targeted sampling methods for specific behavioural subgroups, and methods for population size estimation. This paper reviews the strategies employed effectively for HIV programmes and offers considerations and recommendations for adapting them to the malaria elimination context. © 2017 The Author(s).

Author Keywords

High risk populations Surveillance Malaria HIV

Index Keywords

HIV Infections Human immunodeficiency virus infection sampling agricultural worker human Anopheles Malaria nonhuman procedures disease surveillance migrant worker population size health program Humans Epidemiological Monitoring Antimalarials antimalarial agent risk factor Review Disease Transmission, Infectious high risk population prevention and control disease transmission miner disease elimination construction worker Anopheles arabiensis Mosquito Control virus transmission forest worker case finding Anopheles dirus practice guideline presurveillance assessment second generation surveillance Plasmodium knowlesi soldier health survey
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85009851704&doi=10.1186%2fs12936-017-1679-1&partnerID=40&md5=31877fa36518c5dc9059151fc246da03
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-017-1679-1
ISSN: 14752875
Cited by: 7
Original Language: English