Epidemiology, therapeutic agents and cost of management of paediatric malaria in a Nigerian tertiary hospital.

Background And Objectives: Malaria is the most widespread parasitic disease in sub-Saharan Africa with associated high morbidity and mortality especially among the highly predisposed population of pregnant women and children of age five years and below. Living in malaria endemic regions of the world has become associated with health and economic hazards placing financial and productive burden on affected households.

Methods: A prospective study of children treated for malaria and other associated illnesses at a Nigeria tertiary health institution between May and October 2003 was undertaken.

Life-table analysis of Anopheles malaria vectors: generational mortality as tool in mosquito vector abundance and control studies.

Background & Objectives: Vector control will for sometime remain a primary weapon in the war against vector borne diseases. Malaria is of paramount importance in this with its associated high morbidity and mortality especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This study on generational mortality associated factors in Anopheles mosquitoes life-table analysis was designed to investigate the fecundity, levels of mortality and mortality associated factors at the aquatic stages of anopheline malaria vectors.