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J Parasit Dis Diagn Ther 2017
Volume 2 Issue 3
Tropical Medicine 2017
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September 7-8, 2017 | Edinburgh, Scotland
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International Conference on
Tropical Medicine, Infectious Diseases & Public Health
ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL TRENDS AND
RECENT ELIMINATION OF MALARIA FROM
SRI LANKA AND ITS APPLICABILITY FOR
MALARIACONTROL IN OTHER COUNTRIES
Ranjan Ramasamy
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ID-FISH Technology Inc., USA
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ri Lanka is a tropical island located South of India in the
Indian Ocean. Malaria has been prevalent in the island for
centuries but the country succeeded in eliminating the disease
in 2012. Factors governing the past endemicity of malaria and
its successful elimination from Sri Lanka in 2012 are analyzed.
There is evidence that malaria might have been first introduced
in the 13th century into a dry zone area with extensive irrigation
works. Regular widespread epidemics of the disease have been
documented in the 20th century. The island nature of Sri Lanka,
generally low transmission rates, widespread and accessible
government hospitals and clinics that provide free and readily
available diagnosis and treatment for malaria, adequate financial
support and commitment to the Anti-Malaria Campaign (AMC),
national and decentralized malaria control efforts sustained
over a long period by dedicated and competent AMC staff, and
the absence of zoonotic malaria are recognized as key factors
responsible for eliminating malaria from Sri Lanka. These factors
are analyzed in the context of their relevance to the present
malaria elimination efforts in other countries with the overall
aim of globally eradicating the disease.
Biography
Ranjan Ramasamy graduated from the University of Cambridge, UK and then
obtained a PhD also from the University of Cambridge. He has since held
academic appointments in the UK and abroad including Australia, Sri Lanka
and the USA. He was the Chairman of the National Science Foundation of
Sri Lanka, Professor of Life Sciences at the Institute of Fundamental Studies
in Kandy in Sri Lanka, Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Jaffna in
Jaffna Sri Lanka, Professor of Immunology in the University Brunei Darussalam
Medical School and held institute/ university appointments at the Scripps Clinic
and Research Foundation in La Jolla in the USA, University of Nairobi in Kenya,
King Faisal University in Dammam in Saudi Arabia, the Queensland Institute
of Medical Research in Australia, Anglia Ruskin University in England and the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in England. He has more than
200 publications in fields pertaining to Medical Sciences.
rjr200911@yahoo.comRanjan Ramasamy, J Parasit Dis Diagn Ther 2017