None | 15 Jun 2023 | World Health Organization
The twelfth meeting of the WHOPES Working Group, an advisory group to the WHO Pesticide Evaluation Scheme (WHOPES), was convened at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 8 to 11 December 2008.
Elizeus Rutebemberwa et al | 12 Jun 2023 | Malaria Journal
Community distribution of anti-malarials and antibiotics has been recommended as a strategy to reduce the under-five mortality due to febrile illnesses in sub-Saharan Africa. However, drugs distributed in these interventions have been considered weak by some caretakers and utilization of community medicine distributors has been low.
Immo Kleinschmidt et al | 03 Jun 2023 | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In malaria-endemic countries in Africa, a large proportion of child deaths are directly or indirectly attributable to infection with Plasmodium falciparum. Four years after high coverage, multiple malaria control interventions were introduced on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, changes in infection with malarial parasites, anemia, and fever history in children were estimated and assessed in relation to changes in all-cause under-5 mortality.
Mwinyi Msellem et al | 28 Apr 2023 | PloS Medicine
The use of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for Plasmodium falciparum malaria is being suggested to improve diagnostic efficiency in peripheral health care settings in Africa.
Roger Bate, Richard Tren, Kimberly Hess, Lorraine Mooney & Karen Porter | 27 Apr 2023 | African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Researchers procured a range of antimalarial, antibiotic and antimycobacterial drugs from cities in six countries: Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Semi-quantitative thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and disintegration tests, Raman spectrometry, and near-infrared (NIR) spectrometry were used to measure the concentration of active ingredients and excipients (spectrometry only) to determine whether the tested samples were of good quality.
None | 21 Apr 2023 | Africa Fighting Malaria
Roll Back Malaria's theme for World Malaria Day 2009 is "Counting Malaria Out". AFM supports the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in their efforts to improve data collection and track progress of malaria control efforts. For the past year, AFM and its partners have focused on "counting out" poor-quality antimalarial drugs.
Joan Nankabirwa et al | 16 Apr 2023 | Malaria Journal
In Uganda, like in many other countries traditionally viewed as harbouring very high malaria transmission, the norm has been to recommend that febrile episodes are diagnosed as malaria. In this study, the policy implications of such recommendations are revisited.
Sarah G Staedke et al | 14 Apr 2023 | The Lancet
Home management of malaria—the presumptive treatment of febrile children with antimalarial drugs—is advocated to ensure prompt effective treatment of the disease. We assessed the effect of home delivery of artemether-lumefantrine on the incidence of antimalarial treatment and on clinical outcomes in children from an urban setting with fairly low malaria transmission.
Pascalina Chanda et al | 17 Mar 2024 | Malaria Journal
Malaria related OPD visits have reduced at Chongwe rural health facility. The reduction in health facility malaria cases has led to an increase in diagnoses of respiratory infections. These findings have implications for the management of non-malaria fevers in children under the age of five years.
Lucy A. Smith et al | 16 Mar 2024 | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Effective case management of uncomplicated malaria is a cornerstone of successful malaria control. With current calls for the global elimination of malaria, all strategies to control malaria need to reach the highest achievable level of effective implementation.