Accuracy of malaria diagnosis by microscopy, rapid diagnostic test, and PCR methods and evidence of antimalarial overprescription in non-severe... (Publications)
The study was aimed to evaluate the malaria over/underdiagnosis and over/underprescription of antimalarial drugs. Between February and March 2007 blood samples were collected from 336 non-severe febrile [...] Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani (INMI), Rome, Italy. As a result of PCR, we identified 26 malaria cases out of 336 (7.7%) patients. Microscopy and RDT accuracies were 93.5% and 97.6%, respectively [...] were 29.3% and 30.8%, respectively. On-field training, clinical management of...
Indoors man-biting mosquitoes and their implication on malaria transmission in Mpwapwa and Iringa Districts, Tanzania (Publications)
the two districts was infected with malaria sporozoites. Despite low mosquito densities and absence of infective mosquitoes in our study, the two districts are malaria epidemic prone, thus a continuous [...] outbreak. Further longitudinal studies are required to determine the transmission potential of the malaria mosquitoes in the two districts
The contribution of health-care services to a sound and sustainable malaria-control policy (Publications)
efforts to control malaria and other diseases without taking into account health-system performance and sustainability. Even assuming that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM)--a recent [...] HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, besides presenting a large mortality and morbidity burden in developing countries, are also responsible for poor economic development. In the past international
Insecticide-treated bednets and curtains for preventing malaria (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria is an important cause of illness and death in many parts of the world, especially in Africa. There has been a renewed emphasis on preventive measures, both at community and at individual [...] of this review was to assess the effects of insecticide-treated bednets or curtains in preventing malaria SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group trials register, Medline, Embase [...] Insecticide-treated nets appear to be effective in reducing childhood...
Targeted subsidy for malaria control with treated nets using a discount voucher system in Tanzania (Publications)
have become a key strategy for malaria control. Social marketing is an appealing tool for getting such nets to poor rural African communities who are most afflicted by malaria. This approach usually involves [...] social marketing programme and forming an IEC tool to demonstrate the group at most risk of severe malaria