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Malaria [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2017
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Malaria is caused in humans by five species of single-celled eukaryotic Plasmodium parasites (mainly Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax) that are transmitted by the bite of Anopheles spp. mosquitoes.
Margaret A, Phillips, Jeremy N, Burrows, Christine, Manyando, Rob Hooft, van Huijsduijnen, Wesley C, Van Voorhis, Timothy N C, Wells   +5 more
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Reflections on the 2021 World Malaria Report and the future of malaria control

Malaria Journal, 2022
The World Malaria Report, released in December 2021, reflects the unique challenges currently facing the global malaria community. The report showed the devastating toll of malaria, with an estimated 627,000 people losing their lives to the disease in ...
April Monroe, N. A. Williams, S. Ogoma, C. Karema, F. Okumu   +4 more
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Severe malaria

Malaria Journal, 2022
Severe malaria is a medical emergency. It is a major cause of preventable childhood death in tropical countries. Severe malaria justifies considerable global investment in malaria control and elimination yet, increasingly, international agencies, funders
N. J. White
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Spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting during the seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign in 2022

Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2023
Background Seasonal administration of antimalaria drug, sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine to children 3–59 months is a malaria preventive intervention used for the reduction of childhood malaria morbidity and mortality in area with highly ...
Kunle Rotimi, Babatunde Fagbemi, Taiwo Ibinaiye, Jimmy Aiden, Victor Gabriel, Chrysantus Dabes, Tapshak Kyeshir, Daniel Oguche, Omolola Obayemi, Aminu Biambo, Andrew Okwulu, Adaeze Aidenagbon   +11 more
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Optimizing the role of ‘lead mothers’ in seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaigns: formative research in Kano State, northern Nigeria

Malaria Journal, 2023
Background Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a safe and effective intervention for preventing malaria in children under 5 years of age. Lead mothers are community health volunteers that help caregivers comply with monthly administration of anti ...
Ekechi Okereke, Helen Smith, Chibuzo Oguoma, Olusola Oresanya, Kolawole Maxwell, Chinedu Anikwe, Lawrence Chijioke Osuji, Obianuju Ogazi, Jamila Musa, Ashiru Rajab, Emmanuel Shekarau, Festus Okoh, Erica Viganò, Laura Donovan, Charlotte Ward, Kevin Baker   +15 more
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Carrying the Moral Burden of Safe Fieldwork

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 104, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Fieldwork in ecology and the environmental sciences often leads to negative physical and emotional outcomes for workers. I argue that this is largely due to an abdication of responsibility on the part of their supervisors, and that supervisors are charged with carrying three interlinked moral burdens: first, the duty of promoting safety ...
Benjamin Wong Blonder
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Predictors of caregiver adherence to administration of amodiaquine during delivery of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Togo

Malaria Journal, 2023
Background Malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among infants and children under-five in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sahel, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is delivered door-to-door in monthly cycles.
Taiwo Ibinaiye, Olusola Oresanya, Chibuzo Oguoma, Adaeze Aidenagbon, Olabisi Ogunmola, Christian Rassi, Sol Richardson   +6 more
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Nets, Spray or Both? The Effectiveness of Insecticide-Treated Nets and Indoor Residual Spraying in Reducing Malaria Morbidity and Child Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

, 2013
Malaria control programmes currently face the challenge of maintaining, as well as accelerating, the progress made against malaria with fewer resources and uncertain funding. There is a critical need to determine what combination of malaria interventions
A Kilian, AD Flaxman, AM Rehman, B Pluess, C Lengeler, Carol Medlin, CJL Murray, D Kim, DL Smith, E Batisso, E Worrall, Emmanuela Gakidou, FN Binka, FO Okumu, GW Fegan, I Kleinschmidt, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, JT Griffin, K Kolaczinski, L Yakob, M Blackwell, M Pinder, Malaria Consortium: Roll Back Malaria, MJ Hamel, N Chitnis, N Protopopoff, Nancy Fullman, President’s Malaria Initiative, President’s Malaria Initiative, President’s Malaria Initiative, President’s Malaria Initiative, President’s Malaria Initiative, President’s Malaria Initiative, PW Gething, R Kigozi, RGA Feachem, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Roy Burstein, S Kunene, SI Hay, SI Hay, SI Hay, SS Lim, Stephen S Lim, T Bousema, The Global Health Group and the Malaria Atlas Project, TP Eisele, V Corbel, WA Hawley, WHO Global Malaria Programme, World Health Organization   +52 more
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MALARIA. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1891
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Achieving global malaria eradication in changing landscapes

Malaria Journal, 2021
Land use and land cover changes, such as deforestation, agricultural expansion and urbanization, are one of the largest anthropogenic environmental changes globally.
K. Fornace, Adriana V. Díaz, J. Lines, C. Drakeley   +3 more
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