Recommendations for malaria prevention in moderate to low risk areas: travellers' choice and risk perception (Publications)
behaviour. CONCLUSIONS: When travelling to moderate- to low-risk malaria areas, 85% of interviewees chose not to take chemoprophylaxis as malaria prevention, although most guidelines recommend it. They had [...] BACKGROUND: The considerable malaria decline in several countries challenges the strategy of chemoprophylaxis for travellers visiting moderate- to low-risk areas. An international consensus on the best [...] to include travellers' opinions in the decision process. The preference of...
Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality (Publications)
deaths due to malaria, there are still an estimated 219 million cases of malaria a year, causing more than half a million deaths. In this forum article, we asked experts working in malaria research and [...] which malaria might eventually be eradicated. Their collective views highlight the challenges and opportunities, and explain how multi-factorial and integrated processes could eventually make malaria eradication
Effective coverage and systems effectiveness for malaria case management in sub-Saharan African countries (Publications)
Scale-up of malaria preventive and control interventions over the last decade resulted in substantial declines in mortality and morbidity from the disease in sub-Saharan Africa and many other parts of [...] infectious reservoir and averting emergence and spread of drug resistance. However many patients with malaria do not access care, providers do not comply with treatment guidelines, and hence, patients do not [...] seeking, provider compliance, adherence, and quality of medication to estimate...
Resisting infection by <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> increases the sensitivity of the malaria vector <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> to DDT (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The evolution of insecticide resistance threatens current malaria control methods, which rely heavily on chemical insecticides. The magnitude of the threat will be determined by the phenotypic [...] phenotypic expression of resistance in those mosquitoes that can transmit malaria. These differ from the majority of the mosquito population in two main ways; they carry sporozoites (the infectious stage of [...] Plasmodium parasite) and they are relatively old, as they need to survive...