Evidence of HLA class II association with antibody response against the malaria vaccine SPF66 in a naturally exposed population (Publications)
The antibody response against the malaria vaccine SPf66 and against circumsporozoite (CS) protein has been tested in immune adults from a malaria endemic area in Papua New Guinea. All individuals were
The contribution of health-care services to a sound and sustainable malaria-control policy (Publications)
efforts to control malaria and other diseases without taking into account health-system performance and sustainability. Even assuming that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM)--a recent [...] HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, besides presenting a large mortality and morbidity burden in developing countries, are also responsible for poor economic development. In the past international
Cost-effectiveness of social marketing of insecticide-treated nets for malaria control in the United Republic of Tanzania (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To assess the costs and consequences of a social marketing approach to malaria control in children by means of insecticide-treated nets in two rural districts of the United Republic of Tanzania [...] marketing of insecticide-treated nets is an attractive intervention for preventing childhood deaths from malaria
Targeted subsidy for malaria control with treated nets using a discount voucher system in Tanzania (Publications)
have become a key strategy for malaria control. Social marketing is an appealing tool for getting such nets to poor rural African communities who are most afflicted by malaria. This approach usually involves [...] social marketing programme and forming an IEC tool to demonstrate the group at most risk of severe malaria