Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) II: Epidemiology of urban malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
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* Corresponding author: Christian Lengeler christian.lengeler@unibas.ch
Malaria Journal 2006, 5:28 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-5-28
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Malaria – a major health problem within an oil palm plantation around Popondetta, Papua New Guinea Bianca Pluess, Ivo Mueller, Damien Levi, Graham King, Thomas A Smith, Christian Lengeler Malaria Journal 2009, 8:56 (8 April 2009) This paper is concerned with malaria in an oil palm estate in a country which is going through rapid ecological and developmental change. The finding of complex malaria patterns is highly relevant to the national communicable disease control programmes, and ways to apply appropriate interventions are required. As such, the paper will appeal to disease control managers, epidemiologists and environmental scientists.
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Social and environmental malaria risk factors in urban areas of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Meili Baragatti, Florence Fournet, Marie-Claire Henry, Serge Assi, Herman Ouedraogo, Christophe Rogier, Gérard Salem Malaria Journal 2009, 8:13 (13 January 2009) Urban malaria in African cities is starting to emerge as a entity with its own specific features. It is generally considered that suitable vector breeding sites are scarce in highly populated areas, but despite low endemicity, a high proportion of fevers are presumptively treated as malaria in urban areas and the anti-malarial drug consumption is higher than in rural areas
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History of malaria control in Tajikistan and rapid malaria appraisal in an agro-ecological setting Barbara Matthys, Tohir Sherkanov, Saifudin S Karimov, Zamonidin Khabirov, Till Mostowlansky, Jürg Utzinger, Kaspar Wyss Malaria Journal 2008, 7:217 (26 October 2008) This paper has a dual interest, firstly because it reports on a ‘rapid malaria appraisal’ approach in an endemic setting of Central Asia; secondly, because malaria information from these areas is scanty, and both past and current situations are presented here in exhaustive manner.
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Ulrike Fillinger, Khadija Kannady, George William, Michael J Vanek, Stefan Dongus, Dickson Nyika, Yvonne Geissbühler, Prosper P Chaki, Nico J Govella, Evan M Mathenge, Burton H Singer, Hassan Mshinda, Steven W Lindsay, Marcel Tanner, Deo Mtasiwa, Marcia C de Castro, Gerry F Killeen Malaria Journal 2008, 7:20 (25 January 2008) A programme which delegates responsibility for routine mosquito control and surveillance to modestly-paid community members. This pilot study addresses some of the important issues of larviciding in an urban environment.
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Yvonne Geissbühler, Prosper Chaki, Basiliana Emidi, Nicodemus J Govella, Rudolf Shirima, Valeliana Mayagaya, Deo Mtasiwa, Hassan Mshinda, Ulrike Fillinger, Steven W Lindsay, Khadija Kannady, Marcia de Castro, Marcel Tanner, Gerry F Killeen Malaria Journal 2007, 6:126 (19 September 2007) In a situation of changing mosquito and human behaviour, ITNs may confer lower levels of personal protection which need to be supplemented by measures of environmental management in the community, including mosquito-proofing of houses and larviciding.
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Stefan Dongus, Dickson Nyika, Khadija Kannady, Deo Mtasiwa, Hassan Mshinda, Ulrike Fillinger, Axel W Drescher, Marcel Tanner, Marcia C Castro, Gerry F Killeen International Journal of Health Geographics 2007, 6:37 (4 September 2007) |
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Yazoumé Yé, Catherine Kyobutungi, Valérie R Louis, Rainer Sauerborn Malaria Journal 2007, 6:46 (19 April 2007) In view of the heterogeneity of transmission, malaria control strategies should be designed to fit the local context. Risk should be assessed at the district level to allow cost-effective resource allocation that gives priority to locations with high risk.
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Michael J Vanek, Bryson Shoo, Deo Mtasiwa, Michael Kiama, Steven W Lindsay, Ulrike Fillinger, Khadija Kannady, Marcel Tanner, Gerry F Killeen BMC Public Health 2006, 6:154 (15 June 2006) |