History of malaria control in Tajikistan and rapid malaria appraisal in an agro-ecological setting (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Reported malaria cases in rice growing areas in western Tajikistan were at the root of a rapid appraisal of the local malaria situation in a selected agro-ecological setting where only scarce [...] by a review of the epidemiology and control of malaria in Tajikistan and Central Asia from 1920 until today. Following a resurgence in the 1990s, malaria transmission has been reduced considerably in [...] Plasmodium falciparum persist. METHODS: The rapid malaria appraisal was carried out...
Increased use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests improves targeting of anti-malarial treatment in rural Tanzania: implications for nationwide rollout... (Publications)
Health Organization recommends parasitological confirmation of all malaria cases. Tanzania is implementing a phased rollout of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for routine use in all levels of care [...] confirmation of malaria diagnosis. This study was carried out to evaluated artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) prescribing patterns in febrile patients with and without uncomplicated malaria in one pre-RDT [...] and low malaria transmission seasons in 2010 in both areas. Clinical...
The use of insecticide-treated nets for reducing malaria morbidity among children aged 6-59 months, in an area of high malaria transmission in central... (Publications)
tool for controlling malaria. Much attention has been devoted to determine both the effect of LLINs on the reduction of Plasmodium infection rate and clinically-confirmed malaria cases in sub-Saharan Africa [...] of clinically-confirmed malaria cases, in five villages in the district of Toumodi, central Cote d'Ivoire. METHODS: From April 2007 to November 2008, a community-based malaria control programme was implemented [...] overall clinical malaria rates dropped over the entire 18-month project...
Geographical patterns and predictors of malaria risk in Zambia: Bayesian geostatistical modelling of the 2006 Zambia national malaria indicator survey... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Zambia Malaria Indicator Survey (ZMIS) of 2006 was the first nation-wide malaria survey, which combined parasitological data with other malaria indicators such as net use, indoor residual [...] parasitaemia risk and environmental/climatic predictors of malaria. A number of models were fitted to capture the (potential) non-linearity in the malaria-environment relation and to identify the elapsing time [...] overview of the malaria situation in Zambia. These maps can assist to...
Spatially explicit burden estimates of malaria in Tanzania: Bayesian geostatistical modeling of the malaria indicator survey data (Publications)
A national HIV/AIDS and malaria parasitological survey was carried out in Tanzania in 2007-2008. In this study the parasitological data were analyzed: i) to identify climatic/environmental, socio-economic [...] omic and interventions factors associated with child malaria risk and ii) to produce a contemporary, high spatial resolution parasitaemia risk map of the country. Bayesian geostatistical models were fitted [...] association between parasitaemia risk and its determinants. Bayesian kriging...
Closing the malaria prevention gap: measuring and characterizing human behavioral drivers of persistent malaria transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
two-thirds of the reduction in malaria burden over the past two decades. However, progress has begun to stall in recent years highlighting the importance of enhanced malaria prevention efforts. The aim of [...] Malaria kills a person nearly every minute, most often a child under the age of five. While endemic in many parts of the world, a disproportionate burden of cases and deaths are borne by people living [...] living in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is transmitted by the female Anopheles...
Constructing a malaria-related health service readiness index and assessing its association with child malaria mortality: an analysis of the Burkina... (Publications)
services. We constructed a readiness index related to malaria services and determined the association between health facility malaria readiness and malaria mortality in children under the age of 5 years in [...] l models with variable selection were fitted to malaria mortality data. The most important facility readiness indicators related to general and malaria-specific services were determined. Multiple corr [...] the low readiness group. Medical centres readiness was not related to malaria...
Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) II: epidemiology of urban malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) (Publications)
behind malaria research and control strategies stems largely from experience gained in rural areas and needs to be adapted to the urban environment. METHODS: A rapid assessment of urban malaria was conducted [...] 2003 using a standard Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) methodology. This study was part of a multi-site study in sub-Saharan Africa supported by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. RESULTS: Overall, around [...] one million cases of malaria are reported every year by health...