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Malaria on isolated Melanesian islands prior to the initiation of malaria elimination activities 
The Australian Government's Pacific Malaria Initiative (PMI) programme is supporting malaria elimination activities in both Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in conjunction with the Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). Two remote island groups - Tafea Province, Vanuatu and Temotu Province, Solomon Islands have been selected as possible malaria elimination areas. To provide information on the prevalence and distribution of the disease within these island groups malariometric surveys were conducted during the wet seasons of 2008.
For various reasons malaria rates are declining in these provinces providing a favourable situation for local malaria elimination.
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