Report on the malaria erradication program, of the State of São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

The experience and the results obtained in the Malaria Eradication Program by the Serviço de Erradicação da Malária e Profilaxia da Doença de Chagas (SEMPDC) in the State of São Paulo (Brasil) show that the measures of attack adopted, initially and during the whole attack phase, were adequate and according to the extension and epidemiologic situation of the malariogenic area. With reference to the consolidation phase, the problems originated by imported cases and in several occasions, re-establishment of transmission in small foci, were solved. At present the foci follow-up is being continued, even if considered inactive. The future of the Malaria Erradication Program in the State of São Paulo is favorable due to the progress in the total coverage of the Federal Malaria Eradication Program. The three anual spraying cycle of DDT as well as the adoption of the treatment of radical cure "Families" in the islands, situated on the Rio Paraná and Rio Grande, boderline with the state of Mato Grosso and Minas Gerais, much will contribute to accelarate the disappearance of malaria cases. Considering the possibilities of the Program to be transferred to the maintenance phase, and the Malaria Eradication Certificate beasked to the WHO in the year 1971, the years of 1969 and 1970 will be used for an intensification of cases detection, coordination with Health Services, the establishing of areas of demonstration to the integration of these Services of Malaria, and in improvement of vigilance operations.