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Evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of integrating mass drug administration for helminth control with seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Ghanaian children: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

Trop Med Int Health
Abstract Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of integrating seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with mass drug administration for helminth control among school‐aged children living in communities where the burden of malaria and helminths is high in Ghana, West Africa.
Afolabi MO, Adu-Gyasi D, Paintain L, Tawiah T, Ali MS, Greenwood B, Asante KP.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

New tools for malaria control - using them wisely. [PDF]

, 2017
The incidence of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa is falling and in many countries on the continent the pattern of malaria infection within the country is becoming more heterogeneous.
Greenwood, Brian
core   +1 more source

Knowledge and acceptance of malaria vaccine among parents of under‐five children of malaria endemic areas in Bangladesh: A cross‐sectional study

Health Expectations, Volume 26, Issue 6, Page 2630-2643, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Background Malaria exists as an endemic in many countries including Bangladesh and the malaria vaccine is not yet available here. The study aimed to assess the level of knowledge and acceptance of the malaria vaccination among the parents of children under the age of five in Bangladesh's malaria‐endemic areas and the sociodemographic ...
Mohammad Ashraful Amin, Sadia Afrin, Atia S. Bonna, Md Faisal K. Rozars, Mohammad Hayatun Nabi, Mohammad Delwer H. Hawlader   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of malaria control programs in West Africa: a narrative review [PDF]

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, 2022
Malaria is a major public health challenge in Africa, especially in West African countries. Its impacts on the individuals and families in these countries go beyond the physical health status to the financial crises it leaves them to nurse.
T. Sokunbi, T. Adesanya, F. Aremu
doaj   +1 more source

Efficacy and safety of primaquine and methylene blue for prevention of Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Mali: a phase 2, single-blind, randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: Primaquine and methylene blue are gametocytocidal compounds that could prevent Plasmodium falciparum transmission to mosquitoes. We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of primaquine and methylene blue in preventing human to mosquito ...
Bousema, Teun, Bradley, John, Brown, Joelle M, Chen, Ingrid, Diarra, Kalifa, Diawara, Halimatou, Dicko, Alassane, Drakeley, Chris, Gosling, Roly, Hwang, Jimee, Issiaka, Djibrilla, Keita, Sekouba, Kone, Daouda T, Lanke, Kjerstin, Mahamar, Almahamoudou, McCulloch, Charles, Müller, Olaf, Roh, Michelle E, Sanogo, Koualy, Soumare, Harouna M, Srinivasan, Vinay, Stone, Will JR, Traore, Sekou F   +22 more
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Pharmacovigilance reporting during seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign: Findings from northern Nigeria [PDF]

Scientific African, 2022
Background: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign is known to reduce malaria-related morbidity and mortality among children aged 3 -59 months in the Sahel regions of Africa. However, the success of the intervention may be adversely affected by the absence of a robust pharmacovigilance system to monitor safety.
Kunle Rotimi, Jimmy Aiden, Chrysanthus Dabes, Kenneth Maduka, Daniel Oguche, Ademola Joshua Itiola, Olusola Oresanya   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Analysis of Preventive Interventions for Malaria: Exploring Partial and Complete Protection and Total and Primary Intervention Effects. [PDF]

, 2015
Event dependence, the phenomenon in which future risk depends on past disease history, is not commonly accounted for in the statistical models used by malaria researchers. However, recently developed methods for the analysis of repeated events allow this
Asante, Kwaku Poku, Cairns, Matthew, Chandramohan, Daniel, Cheung, Yin Bun, Diallo, Diadier, Dicko, Alassane, Greenwood, Brian, Konate, Amadou T, Milligan, Paul, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Xu, Ying   +10 more
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Drug resistance mediating Plasmodium falciparum polymorphisms and clinical presentations of parasitaemic children in Uganda. [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundPlasmodium falciparum genetic polymorphisms that mediate altered drug sensitivity may impact upon virulence. In a cross-sectional study, Ugandan children with infections mutant at pfcrt K76T, pfmdr1 N86Y, or pfmdr1 D1246Y had about one-fourth ...
Arinaitwe, Emmanuel, Conrad, Melissa, Dorsey, Grant, Greenhouse, Bryan, Kamya, Moses R, Nsobya, Samuel L, Rosenthal, Philip J, Tukwasibwe, Stephen, Tumwebaze, Patrick   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Guinea in 2020: coverage survey results [PDF]

, 2021
In 2020 SMC was implemented in 17 out of 33 prefectures, which include 50% of the population outside the city of Conakry. The COVID-19 pandemic, and the presidential elections in Guinea, could potentially have affected SMC campaigns in 2020, it was therefore important to evaluate coverage of SMC given these challenges and the increased area of ...
Loua, Kovana Marcel, Milligan, Paul
openaire   +1 more source

Intermittent preventive treatment with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in Ugandan schoolchildren selects for Plasmodium falciparum transporter polymorphisms that modify drug sensitivity. [PDF]

, 2016
Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) offers prolonged protection against malaria, but its impact on Plasmodium falciparum drug sensitivity is uncertain. In a trial of intermittent preventive treatment in schoolchildren in Tororo, Uganda, in 2011 to 2012 ...
Brooker, SJ, Conrad, MD, Dorsey, G, Kamya, MR, Legac, J, Nankabirwa, JI, Nsobya, SL, Rosenthal, PJ, Staedke, SG, Tukwasibwe, S, Tumwebaze, P, Wandera, B   +11 more
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