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Open AccessBorder malaria: defining the problem to address the challenge of malaria elimination
Border malaria is frequently cited as an obstacle to malaria elimination and sometimes used as a justification for the failure of elimination. Numerous border or cross-border meetings and elimination initiativ...
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Open AccessHistory of malaria control in Rwanda: implications for future elimination in Rwanda and other malaria-endemic countries
Malaria was first reported in Rwanda in the early 1900s with significant heterogeneity and volatility in transmission over subsequent decades. Here, a comprehensive literature review of malaria transmission pa...
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Open AccessHealth systems and global progress towards malaria elimination, 2000–2016
As more countries progress towards malaria elimination, a better understanding of the most critical health system features for enabling and supporting malaria control and elimination is needed.
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Open AccessA spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa
Health facilities form a central component of health systems, providing curative and preventative services and structured to allow referral through a pyramid of increasingly complex service provision. Access t...
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Open AccessSpatio-temporal analysis of Plasmodium falciparum prevalence to understand the past and chart the future of malaria control in Kenya
Spatial and temporal malaria risk maps are essential tools to monitor the impact of control, evaluate priority areas to reorient intervention approaches and investments in malaria endemic countries. Here, the ...
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Open AccessCo-morbidity of malnutrition with falciparum malaria parasitaemia among children under the aged 6–59 months in Somalia: a geostatistical analysis
Malnutrition and malaria are both significant causes of morbidity and mortality in African children. However, the extent of their spatial comorbidity remains unexplored and an understanding of their spatial co...
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Open AccessMap** child growth failure in Africa between 2000 and 2015
Insufficient growth during childhood is associated with poor health outcomes and an increased risk of death. Between 2000 and 2015, nearly all African countries demonstrated improvements for children under 5 y...
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Open AccessUsing non-exceedance probabilities of policy-relevant malaria prevalence thresholds to identify areas of low transmission in Somalia
Countries planning malaria elimination must adapt from sustaining universal control to targeted intervention and surveillance. Decisions to make this transition require interpretable information, including mal...
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Open AccessMalaria prevalence metrics in low- and middle-income countries: an assessment of precision in nationally-representative surveys
One pillar to monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals is the investment in high quality data to strengthen the scientific basis for decision-making. At present, nationally-representative ...
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Open AccessTrends in bednet ownership and usage, and the effect of bednets on malaria hospitalization in the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS): 2008–2015
Use of bednets reduces malaria morbidity and mortality. In Kilifi, Kenya, there was a mass distribution of free nets to children < 5 years in 2006. In 2009, a new policy was implemented to offer bednets to pre...
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The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa since 1900
Spatial and temporal modelling of a large dataset of Plasmodium falciparum prevalence rates reveals cycles and trends of malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa over a 115 year period.
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Open AccessUnivariate and multivariate spatial models of health facility utilisation for childhood fevers in an area on the coast of Kenya
Precise quantification of health service utilisation is important for the estimation of disease burden and allocation of health resources. Current approaches to map** health facility utilisation rely on spat...
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Open AccessSpatial models for the rational allocation of routinely distributed bed nets to public health facilities in Western Kenya
In high to moderate malaria transmission areas of Kenya, long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are provided free of charge to pregnant women and infants during routine antenatal care (ANC) and immunization re...
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Open AccessCompleteness of malaria indicator data reporting via the District Health Information Software 2 in Kenya, 2011–2015
Health facility-based data reported through routine health information systems form the primary data source for programmatic monitoring and evaluation in most develo** countries. The adoption of District Hea...
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Open AccessEffect of anti-malarial interventions on trends of malaria cases, hospital admissions and deaths, 2005–2015, Ghana
Since 2005, the Government of Ghana and its partners, in concerted efforts to control malaria, scaled up the use of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs). Beginning in...
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Open AccessThe impact of urbanization and population density on childhood Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence rates in Africa
Although malaria has been traditionally regarded as less of a problem in urban areas compared to neighbouring rural areas, the risk of malaria infection continues to exist in densely populated, urban areas of ...
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Open AccessA national health facility survey of malaria infection among febrile patients in Kenya, 2014
The use of malaria infection prevalence among febrile patients at clinics has a potential to be a valuable epidemiological surveillance tool. However, routine data are incomplete and not all fevers are tested....
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Open AccessMap** intra-urban malaria risk using high resolution satellite imagery: a case study of Dar es Salaam
With more than half of Africa’s population expected to live in urban settlements by 2030, the burden of malaria among urban populations in Africa continues to rise with an increasing number of people at risk o...
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Open AccessEnvironmental predictors of stunting among children under-five in Somalia: cross-sectional studies from 2007 to 2010
Stunting among children under five years old is associated with long-term effects on cognitive development, school achievement, economic productivity in adulthood and maternal reproductive outcomes. Accurate e...
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Open AccessComparing insecticide-treated bed net use to Plasmodium falciparum infection among schoolchildren living near Lake Victoria, Kenya
Under trial conditions insecticide-treated nets have been shown to provide significant clinical and mortality protection under a range of malaria transmission intensity conditions. There are, however, few oper...
