Malaria in an Internally Displaced Persons Camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

To the Editor— We read with interest your 2016 supplement "Malaria in Highly Endemic Areas," in which several articles describe malaria control in 3 countries: Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Uganda. Contributing an estimated 7, 8.5, and 61 million cases annually, respectively, to the global burden of malaria [1], these are worthy countries of focus. Conspicuously underrepresented, however, was the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with 19 million cases annually [1]. Data are scarce from the DRC because of challenges to research and public health interventions in remote zones affected by violent conflict [2, 3]. Thus, the DRC is considered the world's least feasible country for malaria elimination [4] and may be overlooked in global control efforts. We wish to call attention to the burden of malaria in the DRC and its vulnerable population of internally displaced persons (IDPs), providing an illustrative snapshot of malaria in an IDP camp in war-torn DRC.

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