Tracking development assistance and government health expenditures for 35 malaria-eliminating countries: 1990-2017 (Publications)
financier for malaria, providing 96% of the total external funding for malaria in 2013, with vector control interventions being the highest cost driver in all regions. Government expenditure on malaria, while [...] health to the 35 countries actively pursuing malaria elimination. Where possible, development assistance for health (DAH) was categorized by spend on malaria intervention. A diverse set of data points were [...] were used to estimate government health budgets expenditure on malaria,...
Transcriptional profiling defines dynamics of parasite tissue sequestration during malaria infection (Publications)
infection and is linked to severe disease and organ-specific pathology including cerebral and placental malaria. Immature gametocytes - sexual stage precursor cells - likewise disappear from circulation. Recent
The complex relationship of exposure to new <em>Plasmodium</em> infections and incidence of clinical malaria in Papua New Guinea (Publications)
The molecular force of blood-stage infection (molFOB) is a quantitative surrogate metric for malaria transmission at population level and for exposure at individual level. Relationships between molFOB
State of inequality in malaria intervention coverage in sub-Saharan African countries (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scale-up of malaria interventions over the last decade have yielded a significant reduction in malaria transmission and disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. We estimated economic gradients [...] in coverage of malaria interventions and their distribution by wealth within and across countries. In most, economic gradients are lacking or favor the poorest for vector control; malaria services delivered [...] Using Demographic and Health Surveys we computed equity metrics to characterize...
The underlying reasons for very high levels of bed net use, and higher malaria infection prevalence among bed net users than non-users in the... (Publications)
even suppress entire populations of malaria vectors that feed predominantly upon humans. Nevertheless, an epidemiological study in 2012 demonstrated higher malaria prevalence among bed net users than non-users [...] against malaria. Houses with well-screened windows, with doors that shut properly, and that use insecticidal sprays against mosquitoes, were said not to use bed nets, while frequent attacks from malaria was [...] compromise its effectiveness and supposedly increase of malaria...