BACKGROUND Mosquito-proofing homes was one of the principal methods of environmental management in the early 1900s. House screening provides protection against malaria by reducing exposure to malaria parasites and has the added benefit of protecting everyone sleeping in the house, avoiding issues of inequity within the household. The aim of this study is to determine whether house screening pro...

Plasmodium falciparum malaria importation from Africa to China is rising with increasing Chinese overseas investment and international travel. Identifying networks and drivers of this phenomenon as well as the contributors to high case-fatality rate is a growing public health concern to enable efficient response. From 2011-2015, 8653 P. falciparum cases leading to 98 deaths (11.3 per 1000 cases...

Malaria in pregnancy (MiP) is a major, preventable cause of maternal morbidity and poor birth outcomes. To prevent the adverse outcomes of MiP, WHO recommends the use of insecticidetreated mosquito nets (ITNs), and effective case management of malaria and anaemia in pregnant women. In areas of moderate to high malaria transmission of sub-Saharan Africa, WHO also recommends intermittent preventi...

The National Malaria Control Center of Zambia introduced rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) to detect Plasmodium falciparum as a pilot in some districts in 2005 and 2006; scale up at a national level was achieved in 2009. Data on RDT use, drug consumption, and diagnostic results were collected in three Zambian health districts to determine the impact RDTs had on malaria case management over the peri...

BACKGROUND Monitoring implementation of the "test and treat" case-management policy for malaria is an important component of all malaria control programmes in Africa. Unfortunately, routine information systems are commonly deficient to provide necessary information. Using health facility surveys we monitored health systems readiness and malaria case-management practices prior to and following i...

Nowadays, the use of medicinal plants in fight against malaria must be based on scientific results safety and quality. However, reviews antiplasmodial activities West Africa recent years are rare. This study analyzes publications from 2010 to 2021 traditionally used antimalarial treatments Africa. A systematic search was carried out PubMed google scholar databases using following keywords: Mala...

according to willingness of the ministry of health, iran and presence of appropriate conditions for disease elimination, national malaria control program decided to conduct a research to clarify malaria status in 2007 and to provide required information to perform the elimination program. this review is comprised of the basis of national malaria elimination program in vision of 2025, which was ...

INTRODUCTION Severe malaria is a life-threatening medical emergency and requires prompt and effective treatment to prevent death. There is paucity of published information on current practices of severe malaria case management in sub-Saharan Africa; we evaluated the management practices for severe malaria in Ugandan health facilities METHODS AND FINDINGS We did a cross sectional survey, using...

BACKGROUND Falciparum malaria or malaria tropica is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality worldwide. Malaria-related deaths occur mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 365 million clinical cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria occur each year. In Europe, imported malaria cases occur due to returning travellers or immigration mostly from African countries. Children are mor...