Achieving a malaria-free world presents exciting scientific challenges as well as
overwhelming health, equity, and economic benefits. WHO and countries are setting …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa is registering one of the highest urban population growth
across the world. It is estimated that over 75% of the population in this region will be living in …

Background Approaches in malaria risk mapping continue to advance in scope with the
advent of geostatistical techniques spanning both the spatial and temporal domains. A …

Variation in biting frequency by Anopheles mosquitoes can explain some of the
heterogeneity in malaria transmission in endemic areas. In this study in Burkina Faso, we …

Background Malaria risk can vary markedly between households in the same village, or
between villages, but the determinants of this “micro-epidemiological” variation in malaria …

Background A low technology emanator device for slowly releasing vapour of the volatile
pyrethroid transfluthrin was recently developed in Tanzania that provides robust protection …

Background In the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, rapid and spontaneous scale-up of
window screening occurred through purely horizontal commercial distribution systems …

Background Understanding of malaria ecology is a prerequisite for designing locally
adapted control strategies in resource-limited settings. The aim of this study was to utilize the …

This paper summarises key advances in defining the infectious reservoir for malaria and the
measurement of transmission for research and programmatic use since the Malaria …

Access to clean drinking water remains a significant health problem in the developing world.
Traditional definitions of water access oversimplify the geographic context of water …