Malaria and soil-transmitted intestinal helminth co-infection and its effect on anemia: a meta-analysis (Publications)
effect of malaria and STH on anemia. A subgroup analysis showed a higher risk of malaria infection in the primigravidae (summary OR: 1.61; 95% CI: 1.3-1.99; I(2): 0%). In conclusion, the malaria-STH co-infection [...] evidence on the extent of malaria and soil-transmitted intestinal helminth (STH) co-infections in people living in endemic countries and to explore the effect of interactions between malaria and STHs on anemia [...] of the association between anemia and the combined malaria and STH...
Cost savings with rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in low-transmission areas: evidence from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Publications)
Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria may help rationalize antimalarial drug use. However, the economic effects of these tests may vary. Data on costs were collected from 259 patients in 6 health
Changes in malaria burden and transmission in sentinel sites after the roll-out of long-lasting insecticidal nets in Papua New Guinea (Publications)
exhibits a complex malaria epidemiology due to diversity in malaria parasites, mosquito vectors, human hosts, and their natural environment. Heterogeneities in transmission and burden of malaria at various scales [...] scales are likely to affect the success of malaria control interventions, and vice-versa. This manuscript assesses changes in malaria prevalence, incidence and transmission in sentinel sites following the [...] Diagnosis of malaria infection in humans was done by rapid diagnostic...
Spatially variable risk factors for malaria in a geographically heterogeneous landscape, western Kenya: an explorative study (Publications)
factors for malaria can give insight into which human and environmental characteristics play important roles in sustaining malaria transmission. METHODS: On Rusinga Island, western Kenya, malaria infection [...] negatively associated with malaria prevalence. DISCUSSION: Identification of risk factors for malaria that vary geographically can provide insight into the local epidemiology of malaria. Examining spatially [...] Combining the data from both surveys, overall malaria prevalence was 24 %....
A malaria risk map of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
This study presents the first malaria risk map of Kinshasa, a mega city of roughly 10 million inhabitants and located in a highly endemic malaria zone. Prevalence of malaria, anaemia and reported fever was [...] prevalence for malaria and anaemia was 6.4 % (5.6-7.4) and 65.1 % (63.7-66.6) in 2009, and 17.0 % (15.7-18.3) and 64.2 % (62.6-65.9) in 2011. In two HZs sampled in both surveys, malaria prevalence was [...] BACKGROUND: In Kinshasa, malaria remains a major public health problem but its...
Stakeholders' opinions and questions regarding the anticipated malaria vaccine in Tanzania (Publications)
accept the malaria vaccine despite the need to continue using insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), while 88.4 % reported that they will accept malaria vaccine even if their children get malaria less often [...] opinions towards malaria vaccine were due to a need for additional malaria prevention strategies and expectations that the vaccine will reduce visits to the health facility, deaths, malaria episodes and [...] BACKGROUND: Within the context of combined interventions, malaria vaccine may...
The effect of mass mosquito trapping on malaria transmission and disease burden (SolarMal): a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial (Publications)
clinical malaria episodes were recorded in intervened clusters and 33 episodes in non-intervened clusters (adjusted effectiveness 40.8% [95% CI -172.8 to 87.1], p=0.5) during the roll-out. Malaria prevalence [...] unexpectedly low clinical incidence of malaria during roll-out led to an imprecise estimate of effectiveness from the clinical incidence data. The substantial effect on malaria prevalence is explained by reduction [...] mosquitoes indoors and outdoors. We assessed the effects of mass...
A crossover study to evaluate the diversion of malaria vectors in a community with incomplete coverage of spatial repellents in the Kilombero Valley,... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria elimination is unlikely to occur if vector control efforts focus entirely on transmission occurring indoors without addressing vectors that bite outdoors and outside sleeping hours [...] Kilombero, Tanzania. The density of resting and blood-engorged mosquitoes and human blood index (HBI) of malaria vector species per household was measured among 90 households using or not using 0.03 % transfluthrin [...] non-users. The repellent coils did not affect An. funestus densities or...
The relative contribution of climate variability and vector control coverage to changes in malaria parasite prevalence in Zambia 2006-2012 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Four malaria indicator surveys (MIS) were conducted in Zambia between 2006 and 2012 to evaluate malaria control scale-up. Nationally, coverage of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor [...] on malaria parasite prevalence over this period. METHODS: Nationally-representative MISs were conducted in April-June of 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 to collect household-level information on malaria control [...] between IRS and ITN coverage and climate variability and malaria parasite...