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Malaria Consortium Headquarters, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9DA, UK.
Background: To avoid misuse of anti-malarials, correct diagnosis of fever prior to drug prescription is essential. Presumptive treatment in the private healthcare sector is a concern in Nigeria, where availability of affordable artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is high following the implementation of subsidy schemes from 2010 to 2017. Similar subsidies have not, however, been implemented for malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs).
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Malar J
April 2022
Depatment of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Background: Accurate malaria diagnosis and appropriate treatment at local health facilities are critical to reducing morbidity and human reservoir of infectious gametocytes. The current study assessed the accuracy of malaria diagnosis and treatment practices in three health care facilities in rural western Kenya.
Methods: The accuracy of malaria detection and treatment recommended compliance was monitored in two public and one private hospital from November 2019 through March 2020.
Evaluating Vertical Malaria Community Health Worker Programs as Malaria Declines: Learning From Program Evaluations in Honduras and Lao PDR.
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Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, MA, USA.
Background: Across the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and Central America, governments commonly employ community health workers (CHWs) to improve access to and uptake of malaria services. Many of these networks are vertical in design, organized to extend malaria-only services to those remaining communities in which malaria persists.
Methods: Between 2019 and 2020, national ministries of health (MOH) and Clinton Health Access Initiative conducted mixed-methods CHW program evaluations across the GMS and Central America.
Transition of radical, preventive and presumptive treatment regimens for malaria in China: a systematic review.
Malar J
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Yunnan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Yunnan Provincial Centre of Malaria Research, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Vector-borne Diseases Control and Research, Yunnan Institute of Parasitic Diseases Innovative Team of Key Techniques for Vector Borne Disease Control and Prevention (Developing), Training Base of International Scientific Exchange and Education in Tropical Diseases for South and Southeast Asia, Puer, 665000, China.
Background: Globally, malaria is still a major public health challenge. Drug-based treatment is the primary intervention in malaria control and elimination. However, optimal use of mass or targeted treatments remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNon-malarial febrile illness: a systematic review of published aetiological studies and case reports from Africa, 1980-2015.
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September 2020
Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, University of Oxford, New Richards Building,Old Road Campus,Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LG, UK.
Article Synopsis
- Reliable point-of-care tests for malaria have shifted the treatment of febrile illnesses in Africa from guesswork to targeted diagnosis, reducing unnecessary antimalarial prescriptions.
- A systematic review analyzed studies from 1980 to 2015, identifying the pathogens responsible for non-malaria febrile illnesses across 48 African countries, focusing on confirmed diagnoses through various detection methods.
- Out of over 16,500 records, 1065 met the criteria, revealing that bacterial infections were the most common, followed by viral, parasitic, and fungal infections, with specific pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus and Rift Valley fever virus frequent in reports.
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