Frequency of malaria and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Tajikistan (Publications)
high malaria risk with high current incidence rates, where malaria control and prevention measures should be taken at all stages of the transmission cycle; (ii) zones at relatively high malaria risk with [...] with low current incidence rates, where malaria prevention measures are recommended; and (iii) zones at intermediate or low malaria risk with low current incidence rates where no particular measures appear [...] indicates that malaria is a serious health issue in specific regions of...
Estimating the burden of malaria: the need for improved surveillance (Publications)
the importance of using complementary methods to estimate the burden of malaria and call for a renewed focus on efficient malaria surveillance
Malaria: a major health problem within an oil palm plantation around Popondetta, Papua New Guinea (Publications)
023 malaria cases were diagnosed at the aid posts and malaria accounted for 30-40% of all clinical cases. Of the malaria cases, 13-20% were HOP employees. On average, an employee sick with malaria was [...] BACKGROUND: For companies operating in malaria endemic countries, malaria represents a substantial risk to workers and their dependants, and can lead to significantly reduced worker productivity. This [...] 2006. Sleeping outside of the house did not increase the risk of a malaria infection,...
What should vaccine developers ask? Simulation of the effectiveness of malaria vaccines (Publications)
effects of malaria vaccines on malaria transmission, morbidity and mortality. The models are fitted and simulations obtained via volunteer computing. We consider a range of endemic malaria settings with [...] BACKGROUND: A number of different malaria vaccine candidates are currently in pre-clinical or clinical development. Even though they vary greatly in their characteristics, it is unlikely that any of them [...] them will provide long-lasting sterilizing immunity against the malaria parasite....
Implementation of an insecticide-treated net subsidy scheme under a public-private partnership for malaria control in Tanzania--challenges in... (Publications)
commitments from organizations such as the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), the President's Malaria Initiative and the World Bank Booster programme. METHODS: The case study uses the [...] BACKGROUND: In the past decade there has been increasing visibility of malaria control efforts at the national and international levels. The factors that have enhanced this scenario are the availability [...] implementation of a public-private partnership approach embarked upon by the...
Ecologists can enable communities to implement malaria vector control in Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Integrated vector management (IVM) for malaria control requires ecological skills that are very scarce and rarely applied in Africa today. Partnerships between communities and academic ecologists [...] programme at grassroots level, which was subsequently upgraded and expanded into a pilot scale Urban Malaria Control Programme with support from national academic institutes. RESULTS: Both programmes now access [...] ed implementation and operational research opportunities. The...
Genetic diversity of expressed <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> var genes from Tanzanian children with severe malaria (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Severe malaria has been attributed to the expression of a restricted subset of the var multigene family, which encodes for Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1). PfEMP1 [...] in Tanzanian children was analysed. METHODS: Children with defined severe (SM) and asymptomatic malaria (AM) were recruited. Fulllength var mRNA was isolated and reversed transcribed into var cDNA. Su
Malaria transmission after five years of vector control on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Malaria is endemic with year-round transmission on Bioko Island. The Bioko Island Malaria Control Project (BIMCP) started in 2004 with the aim to reduce malaria transmission and to [...] to ultimately eliminate malaria. While the project has been successful in reducing overall malaria morbidity and mortality, foci of high malaria transmission still persist on the island. Results from the
Cost implications of improving malaria diagnosis: findings from north-eastern Tanzania (Publications)
diagnosis of malaria was estimated by comparing the proportion of outpatient attendees of all ages clinically diagnosed as malaria to the proportion of attendees having a positive malaria rapid diagnostic [...] diagnosis of malaria contributes to improper treatment, wastage of drugs and resistance to the few available drugs. This paper attempts to estimate the rates of over diagnosis of malaria among children