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FTA:

> Certification is granted when a country proves that the transmission chain is interrupted for at least the previous three consecutive years.

And

> To get the WHO certification, a country must demonstrate the capacity to prevent the re-establishment of transmission.




Do you know whether that capacity is regularly reinvestigated? Because if not you could get the certification, wait a couple of years, and then dismantle all infrastructure while still reaping the, if ephemeral, benefits.


As if the main benefit of being certified malaria free is the certification instead of actually being malaria free?




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