The low and declining risk of malaria in travellers to Latin America: is there still an indication for chemoprophylaxis? (Publications)
was made between local malaria transmission and malaria imported by travellers to identify the utility of national and regional annual parasite index (API) in predicting malaria risk and its value in [...] generating recommendations on malaria prophylaxis for travellers.Regional malaria transmission data was correlated with malaria acquired in Latin America and imported into the USA and nine European countries [...] countries reported declining malaria transmission. Highest API's in 2003/4 were...
The combined effect of determinants on coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania (Publications)
(ANC) clinics is an important and efficacious intervention to reduce adverse health outcomes of malaria infections during pregnancy. However, coverage for the recommended two IPTp doses is still far below [...] delivery practices and increase IPTp coverage. Pregnant women's knowledge about IPTp and the risks of malaria during pregnancy should be enhanced as well as their ability and power to demand IPTp and other ANC
Willingness to use a rapid diagnostic test for malaria in a rural area of central Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
elimination of malaria, particularly in areas where health services are deficient. The aim of this study was to determine knowledge, attitudes, practices and beliefs in relation to RDTs for malaria in rural [...] in Bozi and were offered an RDT for malaria were interviewed in April 2010 using a pre-tested questionnaire on practice and perceptions in relation to RDTs for malaria. The relationships between acceptance [...] an RDT. The concurrent availability and use of RDTs for HIV and malaria was...
Communities and clinical trials: a case study from the RTS,S malaria vaccine trials in eastern Africa (Publications)
resource scarcity can intensify existing inequities. Here we present a case study of a phase III malaria vaccine clinical trial. Through qualitative interviews with researchers and caregivers of pediatric
Incorporating operational research in programmes funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four sub-Saharan African... (Publications)
situation analysis of the extent to which grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) are being utilized to support operational research and implementation research (OR/IR) [...] both via telephone/online conference tools and in person in four countries with a high burden of malaria and tuberculosis. These countries were Ghana, Sierra Leone, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe