Does test-based prescription of evidence-based treatment for malaria improve treatment seeking and satisfaction? Findings of repeated cross-sectional... (Publications)
Introduction: The presumptive treatment of febrile illness with antimalarial medication is becoming less common in low-income and middle-income countries as access to reliable diagnostic tests improve
Testing bio-efficacy of insecticide-treated nets with fewer mosquitoes for enhanced malaria control (Publications)
Malaria control programs implementing Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) are encouraged to conduct field monitoring of nets' survival, fabric integrity and insecticidal bio-efficacy. The reference
Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria (Publications)
severe malaria episodes. Insecticide-treated nets have since become a core intervention for malaria control and have contributed greatly to the dramatic decline in disease incidence and malaria-related [...] to estimate the impact of ITNs on malaria transmission today. OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this review was to assess the impact of ITNs on mortality and malaria morbidity, incorporating any evidence [...] falciparum malaria by 17% compared to no nets (RR 0.83, 95% CI 0.71 to 0.98; 6...
Inter-sectoral approaches for the prevention and control of malaria among the mobile and migrant populations: a scoping review (Publications)
knowledge about malaria, initiation and promotion of bed nets utilization, increased access to diagnosis and treatment in a surveillance context and contributed towards a reduction in malaria transmission [...] with correct knowledge about malaria transmission (70%, 95% CI 57-83%). Interventions targeting the use of bed nets utilization were two times more likely to reduce malaria incidence amongst the targeted [...] BACKGROUND: Malaria cases among mobile and migrant populations (MMPs) represent...
Diagnostic performance of conventional and ultrasensitive rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in febrile outpatients in Tanzania (Publications)
Background: A novel ultra-sensitive malaria RDT (us-RDT) has been developed for improved active P.falciparum case detection. The utility of this us-RDT in clinical diagnosis and fever management has not [...] infections. Conclusion: There is neither gain nor risk to apply us-RDT rather than co-RDT for clinical malaria diagnosis. In febrile patients, only a small proportion of infections are characterized by parasite
Spatial-temporal heterogeneity in malaria receptivity is best estimated by vector biting rates in areas nearing elimination (Publications)
when vector control can be withdrawn after malaria is eliminated depend on the receptivity or potential of an area to support vector populations. To guide malaria control and elimination programmes, the potential [...] estimate malaria receptivity and transmission were compared within and among geographically localised villages of active transmission in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. RESULTS: Malaria transmission [...] inoculation and parity rates could not be measured with the...
Outdoor malaria transmission risks and social life: a qualitative study in South-Eastern Tanzania (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Behaviour changes in mosquitoes from indoor to outdoor biting result in continuing risk of malaria from outdoor activities, including routine household activities and occasional social and cultural [...] of various social and cultural gatherings that incidentally expose people to mosquito bites and malaria infection. RESULTS: Religious, cultural and social gatherings involving the wider community are conducted [...] work towards elimination. Focusing on single interventions will not...
Identifying key factors of the transmission dynamics of drug-resistant malaria (Publications)
Development of resistance to malaria treatments remains a great threat to continued malaria burden reduction and elimination. Quantifying the impact of key factors which increase the emergence and spread