[Therapeutic effect of dihydroartemisinin combined with naphthoquine phosphate in patients with falciparum malaria].

Objective: To observe the therapeutic efficacy of dihydroartemisinin combined with naphthoquine phosphate in patients with falciparum malaria.

Methods: Patients with Plasmodium falciparum were selected as the subjects, treated with a single dose of dihydroarteminisinin 160 mg combined with naphthoquine phosphate 400 mg (for adults) and followed up in preselective time by blood and temperature examination for 28 days after drug administration.

Results: 37 patients with falciparum malaria were treated and followed up.

[A pilot study on malaria control by using a new strategy of combining strengthening infection source treatment and health education in mountainous areas of Hainan province].

Aim: To explore a new malaria control strategy that fits current epiodemiological condition and coincides with modern medicine model and the principle of cost-benefit.

Methods: The new strategy highlights the risk villages and risk population as the focal point and integrates health education with behavioral intervention. The main anti-malaria measures consists of carrying out health education in risk villages, giving mass drug administrations in risk population staying overnight in the mountain, following up malaria cases for implementing radical cure, but without using traditional residual spraying or impregnating bednets with insecticides.

[A study on human behavior and socioeconomic factors affecting malaria transmission and control in Qiongzhong, Hainan].

This study was conducted in Heping District of Quiongzhong County, a hyperedemic mountainous area, in August-September 1992. The comparative surveys between the village and state-run farm, Li and Miao nationalities and Han nationality were carried out by using the sociological method together with the epidemiological methods. Gray relational analysis was conducted between the aforementioned 7 socioeconomic human behavioral factors and IFA rates.