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Review of mass drug administration for malaria and its operational challenges. [PDF]

, 2015
Mass drug administration (MDA) was a component of many malaria programs during the eradication era, but later was seldomly deployed due to concerns regarding efficacy and feasibility and fear of accelerating drug resistance.
Chen, Ingrid, Gosling, Roly, Greenwood, Brian, Hwang, Jimee, Ippolito, Matthew M, Kachur, S Patrick, Koita, Kadiatou, Newby, Gretchen, Poirot, Eugenie, Shanks, G Dennis, Slutsker, Laurence, von Seidlein, Lorenz, Wegbreit, Jennifer   +12 more
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Factors associated with malaria transmission in children aged 3 to 59 months during seasonal malaria chemoprevention implementation, Kotido District, Uganda, 2024

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: Uganda introduced seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in the Karamoja region, an area where transmission of malaria is high. While SMC is effective in similar settings, 2023 surveillance data in Kotido District showed a 15% increase in ...
Charity Mutesi, Richard Migisha, Lilian Bulage, Gerald Rukundo, Jane Irene Nabakooza, Patrick Kwizera, Mathias Mulyazaawo, Ronald Kimuli, Benon Kwesiga, Alex Riolexus Ario   +9 more
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Progress Report on Implementation of Regional Committee Resolution AFR/RC59/R3 on Accelerated Malaria Control [PDF]

, 2013
Several resolutions have been adopted and commitments made to scale up malaria control towards elimination in the African Region. These include United Nations, African Union, regional economic communities, World Health Assembly and Regional Committee ...
Diarra, Tieman, Kasolo, Francis, Ki-Zerbo, Georges A, Sambo, Luis Gomes   +3 more
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Age‑shifting in malaria incidence as a result of induced immunological deficit: a simulation study [PDF]

, 2015
Effective population-level interventions against Plasmodium falciparum malaria lead to age-shifts, delayed morbidity or rebounds in morbidity and mortality whenever they are deployed in ways that do not permanently interrupt transmission.
Hodel, Eva Maria
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Towards Eliminating Malaria in High Endemic Countries: The Roles of Community Health Workers and Related Cadres and their Challenges in Integrated Community Case Management for Malaria: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

, 2017
Human resource for health crisis has impaired global efforts against malaria in highly endemic countries. To address this, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended scaling-up of community health workers (CHWs) and related cadres owing to their ...
Ayer, Rakesh, Jimba, Masamine, Mlunde, Linda B, Sunguya, Bruno F   +3 more
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Baseline malarial and nutritional profile of children under seasonal malaria chemoprevention coverage in the health district of Nanoro, Burkina Faso

PLoS ONE, 2023
Seasonal Malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is one of the large-scale life-saving malaria interventions initially recommended for the Sahel subregion, including Burkina Faso and recently extended to other parts of Africa.
Paul Sondo, Toussaint Rouamba, Marc Christian Tahita, Karim Derra, Berenger Kabore, Yssimini Nadège Guillène Tibiri, Hyacinthe Abd-El Latif Faïçal Kabore, So-vii Franck Hien, Florence Ouedraogo, Adama Kazienga, Hamidou Ilboudo, Eli Rouamba, Thiery Lefevre, Halidou Tinto   +13 more
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Design, implementation and evaluation of a national campaign to distribute nine million free LLINs to children under five years of age in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND\ud \ud After a national voucher scheme in 2004 provided pregnant women and infants with highly subsidized insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), use among children under five years (U5s) in mainland Tanzania increased from 16% in 2004 to 26.2% in ...
Alex Mwita, Ally Mzava, C Lengeler, Christian Lengeler, DJ Terlouw, DO Simba, GM Mubyazi, H Prosper, J Hwang, J Ijumba, J Skarbinski, J Webster, JM Miller, JO Yukich, Joyce Ngegba, K Hanson, K Hanson, Kimberly Bonner, M Grabowski, M Grabowsky, M Grabowsky, Ministry of Finance of the United Republic of Tanzania, Naomi Kaspar, National Bureau of Statistics, National Bureau of Statistics and ORC Macro, National Bureau of Statistics and ORC Macro, National Malaria Control Programme, Nick Brown, Peter D McElroy, Roll Back Malaria, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Romanus Mtung'e, Rose Nathan, S Githinji, Susan Omari, T Marchant, Tanzania Commission for AIDS, Zanzibar AIDS Commission, National Bureau of Statistics, Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and Macro International Inc, Tanzania National Malaria Control Programme   +37 more
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Inaugural meeting of the malaria policy advisory committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations

Malaria Journal, 2012
The Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the World Health Organization met for the first time from 31 January to 2 February 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. This article provides a summary of the discussions, conclusions and recommendations from that meeting,
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Mass Azithromycin and Malaria Parasitemia in Niger: Results from a Community-Randomized Trial. [PDF]

, 2017
Studies designed to determine the effects of mass administration of azithromycin on trachoma have suggested that mass azithromycin distributions may also reduce the prevalence of malaria. These studies have typically examined the impact of a small number
Amza, Abdou, Bailey, Robin L, Cotter, Chris, Cotter, Sun Y, Gaynor, Bruce D, Kadri, Boubacar, Lietman, Thomas M, Nassirou, Baido, O'Brien, Kieran S, Porco, Travis C, Rosenthal, Philip J, Stoller, Nicole E, West, Sheila K, Zhou, Zhaoxia   +13 more
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Assessing the effect of seasonal malaria chemoprevention on malaria burden among children under 5 years in Burkina Faso [PDF]

, 2022
Fati Kirakoya‐Samadoulougou, Vincent De Brouwere, Arnold Fottsoh Fokam, Mady Ouédraogo, Yazoume Yé   +4 more
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