El-Ninõ Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and annual malaria incidence in Southern Africa (Publications)
We evaluated the association between annual malaria incidence and El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) as measured by the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) in five countries in Southern Africa from 1988 [...] 1988 to 1999. Below normal incidence of malaria synchronised with a negative SOI (El Niño) and above normal incidence with a positive SOI (La Niña), which lead to dry and wet weather conditions, respectively [...] respectively. In most countries there was a positive relationship between SOI...
Improving malaria home treatment by training drug retailers in rural Kenya (Publications)
Recent global malaria control initiatives highlight the potential role of drug retailers to improve access to early effective malaria treatment. We report on the findings and discuss the implications of [...] of private drug retailers in control strategies aiming to improve prompt effective treatment of malaria
Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine in the treatment of acute, uncomplicated <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>malaria: a pooled analysis (Publications)
and safety of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) for treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Data from seven studies supported by Novartis (1996-2007), including 647 adults (> 16 years of age
Towards empirical description of malaria seasonality in southern Africa: the example of Zimbabwe (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Quantitative description and mapping of malaria seasonality is important for timely spatial targeting of interventions and for modelling malaria risk. There is a need for seasonality models that [...] use Zimbabwe as an example for developing an empirical map of malaria seasonality. We describe the relationship between seasonality in malaria and environmental covariates for the period 1988--1999, by fitting [...] seasonal trend. We adapt a seasonality concentration index used...