Erika Larson senior program manager for advocacy and communications, Roly Gosling associate professor, Rabindra Abeyasinghe coordinator
Larson E, Gosling R, Abeyasinghe R.
Eliminating malaria: following Sri Lanka’s lead
BMJ 2016; 355 :i5517
doi:10.1136/bmj.i5517
Re: Eliminating malaria: following Sri Lanka’s lead
Contribution of the Citizenry
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As humanity is gradually inching towards the unattainable goal of conquering various diseases that afflict human beings, the ' remarkable ' news from Sri Lanka, the island nation in the Indian Ocean, about
eliminating malaria from its domain, is certainly a milestone. In this process a multitude of factors acted synergistically.
Not to be ignored is the unusually high level of literary sophistication of the twenty million population which painlessly and noiselessly contributed to the final historic outcome.
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