environmental management for malaria control is defined as any planned physical activities that through transformation of land, water and vegetation will result in the prevention, reduction or elimination of malaria. in planning and implementing these activities, full consideration must be given to their long-term effects and benefits and to the preservation of the quality of environment and th...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The pregnant woman is more prone to malaria than her non-pregnant counterpart with grave consequences for both mother and baby. This study aims at determining the malaria prevention practices among pregnant women in an area hyper-endemic for malaria. METHODS For the study 983 parturient mothers were enrolled in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria. Information was collected on so...

Several questions regarding the production and functioning of autoantibodies (AAb) during malaria infection remain open. Here we provide an overview of studies conducted in our laboratory that shed some light on the questions of whether antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) and other AAb associated with autoimmune diseases (AID) can recognize Plasmodia antigens and exert anti-parasite activity; and...

Glycosylphosphatidylinositols (GPIs), the anchor molecules of some membrane proteins of Plasmodium species, have been implicated in the induction of immunopathology during malaria infections. Hence, neutralization of GPIs by antibodies may reduce the severity of clinical attacks of malaria. To test this hypothesis, we have assessed the levels of anti-GPI antibodies in plasma from children and a...

background: a successful malaria elimination program calls for enough attention to parasite carri­ers, especially asymptomatic malaria, as well as the diagnosis and treatment of clinical cases. asymptomatic malaria is an infection that patients do not show any symptom; thus, these patients play critical role in the concept of an elimination program. the current investigation was con­ducted to e...

Aim: To study the phytochemical, proximate, antimicrobial and anti-malarial activities of leaf extracts Justicia carnea
 Methods: The sample carnea which has been used in Nigeria folklore treating malaria, cancer many other diseases was extracted with methanol, ethyl acetate n-hexane. were subjected to qualitative quantitative phytochemical screening, screening.
 Results: results show...

Malaria had being widely prevalent for a long time in Iran. Before starting any anti-malarial campaign in Iran about 60% of population was living in malaria endemic areas. In hyper-endemic areas, approximately 30 to 40% of the total mortality was due to malaria. The malariometric data, reported during 1921-1949 in the malaria surveys in some endemic areas, showed high endemicities of the diseas...

Oxidative stress is essential in the pathogenesis of malaria and also, the pharmacological basis of most anti-malaria drugs involves the generation of free radicals and its attendant oxidative stress. This study was designed to investigate the effects of antioxidant supplementation on lipid profile and some hematological parameters in malaria induced albino rats. To achieve this, fifteen (36) h...

Artemisinin is used to treat multi-drug resistant strains of malaria and also in the early stages development as an anti-cancer drug.