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...
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