Low efficacy of amodiaquine or chloroquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> and <em>P. vivax malaria</em> in... (Publications)
against uncomplicated malaria in 2000. The purpose of this study was to monitor in vivo efficacy of the current standard combination therapy against Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax malaria. Studies were conducted [...] vivax malaria was 12%. Our results suggest that the current first-line treatment in Papua New Guinea is not sufficiently effective. According to the new WHO guidelines for the treatment of malaria, a rate [...] seven years of age with clinically overt and parasitologically...
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
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
Insecticide-treated bednets and curtains for preventing malaria (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria is an important cause of illness and death in many parts of the world, especially in Africa. There has been a renewed emphasis on preventive measures, both at community and at individual [...] of this review was to assess the effects of insecticide-treated bednets or curtains in preventing malaria SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group trials register, Medline, Embase [...] Insecticide-treated nets appear to be effective in reducing childhood...