Cross-border malaria in Northern Brazil

Cross-border malaria: a major obstacle for malaria elimination.

Movement of malaria across international borders poses a major obstacle to achieving malaria elimination in the 34 countries that have committed to this goal. In border areas, malaria prevalence is often higher than in other areas due to lower access to health services, treatment-seeking behaviour of marginalized populations that typically inhabit border areas, difficulties in deploying prevent...

Malaria in international border areas

Some reference has been made already to inter-country border distribution of malaria in the region. This has been identified in terms of location of total reported malaria cases, incidence of reported cases, confirmed cases and parasite species. Because they are nationally based, malaria control programs in the region understandably tend to focus on disease distribution within each country. How...

Malaria in Northern Ireland

The clinical features, parasitology and prophylactic history of 67 patients who imported malaria to Northern Ireland between 1974 and 1983 are reported. P. falciparum infections were encountered more frequently than anticipated from current United Kingdom experience. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

Financial Burden of Border Hospital in Caring for Cross-Border Patients: A Short Note From Thailand

[Malaria in the triple border region between Brazil, Colombia and Peru].

This article aims to analyze the malaria surveillance situation on the triple border between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. This was a qualitative study using questionnaires in the border towns in 2011. The results were analyzed with the SWOT matrix methodology, pointing to significant differences between the malaria surveillance systems along the border. Weaknesses included lack of linkage betwee...