Malaria in school‐age children in A frica: an increasingly important challenge

J Nankabirwa, SJ Brooker, SE Clarke… - Tropical medicine & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
School‐age children have attracted relatively little attention as a group in need of special
measures to protect them against malaria. However, increasing success in lowering the …

Improving socioeconomic status may reduce the burden of malaria in sub Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

A Degarege, K Fennie, D Degarege, S Chennupati… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background A clear understanding of the effects of housing structure, education, occupation,
income, and wealth on malaria can help to better design socioeconomic interventions to …

Is Nigeria winning the battle against malaria? Prevalence, risk factors and KAP assessment among Hausa communities in Kano State

S Dawaki, HM Al-Mekhlafi, I Ithoi, J Ibrahim… - Malaria journal, 2016 - Springer
Background Malaria is one of the most severe global public health problems worldwide,
particularly in Africa, where Nigeria has the greatest number of malaria cases. This …

Indoor residual spraying in combination with insecticide-treated nets compared to insecticide-treated nets alone for protection against malaria: a cluster randomised …

PA West, N Protopopoff, A Wright, Z Kivaju… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) of houses
provide effective malaria transmission control. There is conflicting evidence about whether it …

Malaria amongst children under five in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of prevalence, risk factors and preventive interventions

JO Sarfo, M Amoadu, PY Kordorwu, AK Adams… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Introduction Africa has a higher burden of malaria-related cases and deaths globally.
Children under five accounted for over two-thirds of all malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa …

High prevalence and risk of malaria among asymptomatic individuals from villages with high prevalence of artemisinin partial resistance in Kyerwa district of Kagera …

SS Mandai, F Francis, DP Challe, MD Seth… - Malaria Journal, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background Although Tanzania adopted and has been implementing effective
interventions to control and eventually eliminate malaria, the disease is still a leading public …

Socio-economic determinants for malaria transmission risk in an endemic primary health centre in Assam, India

K Yadav, S Dhiman, B Rabha, PK Saikia… - Infectious diseases of …, 2014 - Springer
Background Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Northeast India. As there
is limited information available on the potential influence of socio-economic variables on …

[HTML][HTML] Fine-scale spatial and temporal heterogeneities in insecticide resistance profiles of the malaria vector, Anopheles arabiensis in rural south-eastern Tanzania

NS Matowo, G Munhenga, M Tanner… - Wellcome open …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Programmatic monitoring of insecticide resistance in disease vectors is mostly
done on a large scale, often focusing on differences between districts, regions or countries …

Effectiveness of indoor residual spraying on malaria control: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Zhou, WX Zhang, E Tembo, MZ Xie… - Infectious Diseases of …, 2022 - mednexus.org
Background: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is one of the key interventions recommended by
World Health Organization in preventing malaria infection. We aimed to conduct a …

The effect of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) on Plasmodium falciparum infection in rural and semi-urban communities in the south west region of Cameroon

TO Apinjoh, JK Anchang-Kimbi, RN Mugri… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) have been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality, but
coverage and proper utilization continues to be moderate in many parts of sub-Saharan …