A good night's sleep and the habit of net use: perceptions of risk and reasons for bed net use in Bukoba and Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intensive malaria control interventions in the United Republic of Tanzania have contributed to reductions in malaria prevalence. Given that malaria control remains reliant upon continued use [...] perceived risk of malaria had decreased among the respondents, and malaria control interventions were credited for the decline. Participants cited reductions in both the severity of malaria and in their perceived [...] perceived susceptibility to malaria. However, malaria was still...
A good night's sleep and the habit of net use: perceptions of risk and reasons for bed net use in Bukoba and Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intensive malaria control interventions in the United Republic of Tanzania have contributed to reductions in malaria prevalence. Given that malaria control remains reliant upon continued use [...] perceived risk of malaria had decreased among the respondents, and malaria control interventions were credited for the decline. Participants cited reductions in both the severity of malaria and in their perceived [...] perceived susceptibility to malaria. However, malaria was still...
MMC elimination costing (Projects)
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of malaria elimination interventions. This includes surveillance and a range of targeted and focal malaria elimination interventions when added incrementally to current levels of routine malaria control [...] model developed based on data collected by current malaria elimination trials, (2) estimates of costs, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of malaria elimination interventions and strategies for a number [...] number of policy relevant scenarios simulated with a simulation model of malar...
Antigens released at schizont burst stimulate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>-specific CD4+ T cells from non-exposed donors: potential for... (Publications)
individuals can be stimulated by malaria parasites. Here, we show that nine from 11 blood samples, naturally infected with malaria parasites, could stimulate proliferation of a malaria-specific T cell clone derived [...] the T cell response of naive donors to malaria parasites, processing of parasite antigens is blocked by chloroquine and monensin, and activation of 36 of 41 malaria-specific clones tested was restricted [...] activation of cross-reactive memory T cells by malaria parasites...
Antigens released at schizont burst stimulate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>-specific CD4+ T cells from non-exposed donors: potential for... (Publications)
individuals can be stimulated by malaria parasites. Here, we show that nine from 11 blood samples, naturally infected with malaria parasites, could stimulate proliferation of a malaria-specific T cell clone derived [...] the T cell response of naive donors to malaria parasites, processing of parasite antigens is blocked by chloroquine and monensin, and activation of 36 of 41 malaria-specific clones tested was restricted [...] activation of cross-reactive memory T cells by malaria parasites...
Effects of age, gender and soil-transmitted helminth infection on prevalence of <em>Plasmodium </em>infection among population living in Bata... (Publications)
bed nets. Malaria infections were detected in 34.8% of the participants, while 50% of malaria infections were reported in children aged 10-17 years. Females had a lower prevalence of malaria (28.8%) compared [...] health impact of STH and malaria co-infection is inconclusive. The current study aimed to report the malaria and STH infection epidemiology in the continental region of Equatorial Guinea. METHODS: We performed [...] infected with T. trichiura had malaria parasites compared with those...
Effects of age, gender and soil-transmitted helminth infection on prevalence of <em>Plasmodium </em>infection among population living in Bata... (Publications)
bed nets. Malaria infections were detected in 34.8% of the participants, while 50% of malaria infections were reported in children aged 10-17 years. Females had a lower prevalence of malaria (28.8%) compared [...] health impact of STH and malaria co-infection is inconclusive. The current study aimed to report the malaria and STH infection epidemiology in the continental region of Equatorial Guinea. METHODS: We performed [...] infected with T. trichiura had malaria parasites compared with those...
Introducing insecticide-treated nets in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania: the relevance of local knowledge and practice for an information, education... (Publications)
practice relating to malaria. The findings show that the biomedical concept of malaria overlaps with several local illness concepts, one of which is called malaria and refers to mild malaria. Most respondents [...] linked malaria to mosquitoes (76%) and already used mosquito nets (52%). But local understandings of severe malaria differed from the biomedical concept and were not linked to mosquitoes or malaria. A social [...] Since 1997 the WHO has been recommending an integrative strategy to...
Introducing insecticide-treated nets in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania: the relevance of local knowledge and practice for an information, education... (Publications)
practice relating to malaria. The findings show that the biomedical concept of malaria overlaps with several local illness concepts, one of which is called malaria and refers to mild malaria. Most respondents [...] linked malaria to mosquitoes (76%) and already used mosquito nets (52%). But local understandings of severe malaria differed from the biomedical concept and were not linked to mosquitoes or malaria. A social [...] Since 1997 the WHO has been recommending an integrative strategy to...
Profile: the rusinga health and demographic surveillance system, western Kenya (Publications)
2012 to facilitate a malaria intervention trial: the SolarMal project. The project aims to eliminate malaria from Rusinga Island using the nationwide adopted strategy for malaria control (insecticide-treated [...] surveillance is to measure the effectiveness of the trial on clinical malaria incidence, and to monitor demographic, environmental and malaria-related data variables. At the end of 2014, the 44 km2 island had [...] surveyed for clinical malaria. Following each round of surveillance, a...