Malaria control and elimination in sub-Saharan Africa: data from antenatal care centres.

Although the burden of malaria is progressively declining in most of sub-Saharan Africa, it remains a huge public health issue with complex challenges, such as the rise of drug and insecticide resistance, low coverage of existing preventive strategies, scarcity of safe and effective vaccines, and weakness of public health systems.1 Malaria prevalence surveillance is one of the key cornerstones for achieving malaria control and elimination. WHO’s Global Technical Strategy for malaria has highlighted the importance of malaria surveillance as the third pillar for moving closer to malaria elimination.