Malaria case-management under artemether-lumefantrine treatment policy in Uganda
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* Corresponding author: Dejan Zurovac dzurovac@nairobi.kemri-wellcome.org
Malaria Journal 2008, 7:181 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-181
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Tarig M Abdelgader, Abdalla M Ibrahim, Khalid A Elmardi, Sophie Githinji, Dejan Zurovac, Robert W Snow, Abdisalan M Noor BMC Public Health 2012, 12:11 (6 January 2012) |
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Virginia Wiseman, Lindsay J Mangham, Bonnie Cundill, Olivia A Achonduh, Akindeh MBUH Nji, Abanda NGU Njei, Clare Chandler, Wilfred F Mbacham Trials 2012, 13:4 (6 January 2012) |
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Harriet Lawford, Dejan Zurovac, Laura O'Reilly, Sarah Hoibak, Alice Cowley, Stephen Munga, John Vulule, Elizabeth Juma, Robert W Snow, Richard Allan Malaria Journal 2011, 10:281 (23 September 2011) In the perspective of the present deployment of ACT in Africa and the risk of emergence of resistance to these combinations, the paper addresses the important topic of how to influence adherence to treatment.
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Taking stock: provider prescribing practices in the presence and absence of ACT stock Bernadette Hensen, Lucy Paintain, Rima Shretta, Jane Bruce, Caroline Jones, Jayne Webster Malaria Journal 2011, 10:218 (3 August 2011) An important paper in its field addressing relation between anti-malarial prescribing behaviour and ACT stock-out on six studies where some data on this topic are available. The paper concludes that stock outs influence behaviour and rightly call for revival of facility-based quality of care surveys, an activity largely forgotten within most of the control programmes.
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Changes in health workers' malaria diagnosis and treatment practices in Kenya Elizabeth Juma, Dejan Zurovac Malaria Journal 2011, 10:1 (7 January 2011) This article is part of a collection on National malaria control... There is presently no contention that prompt and effective malaria case management can reduce malaria mortality. However, the symptoms of non-complicated malaria are non-specific and similar to many other disease syndromes. High sensitivity of malaria diagnosis is crucial in all epidemiological settings, but high specificity, especially in low transmission settings, is likely to reduce non-necessary malaria treatment and improve the diagnosis of other febrile illness.
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Methods for evaluating delivery systems for scaling-up malaria control intervention Jayne Webster, Daniel Chandramohan, Kara Hanson BMC Health Services Research 2010, 10(Suppl 1):S8 (2 July 2010) |
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Barriers to prompt and effective malaria treatment among the poorest population in Kenya Jane Chuma, Vincent Okungu, Catherine Molyneux Malaria Journal 2010, 9:144 (27 May 2010) Evidence suggests that the poorest populations benefit less from malaria control interventions, and are less likely to seek prompt and effective treatment.
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Proceedings
Anti-malarial market and policy surveys in sub-Saharan Africa Graciela Diap, John Amuasi, Isaac Boakye, Ann-Marie Sevcsik, Bernard Pecoul Malaria Journal 2010, 9(Suppl 1):S1 (23 April 2010) |
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Quality of malaria case management at outpatient health facilities in Angola Alexander K Rowe, Gabriel de León, Jules Mihigo, Ana Santelli, Nathan P Miller, Pedro Van-Dúnem Malaria Journal 2009, 8:275 (2 December 2009) A useful paper describing quality of malaria case management following implementation of ACT in an Angolan province. There are very limited data in this area of operational research and the paper is of direct relevance for Angolan as well as many other malaria control managers across Africa.
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Health service providers in Somalia: their readiness to provide malaria case-management Abdisalan M Noor, Ismail A Rage, Bruno Moonen, Robert W Snow Malaria Journal 2009, 8:100 (13 May 2009) Results of a health service provider survey conducted in three purposively selected districts in Somalia, a difficult study in war-torn Somalia. They find a relative paucity of health services and many inadequacies in malaria case management, especially in regards to stockouts of diagnostics and antimalarials. Unexpectedly, the availability of parasitologic diagnosis was quite high in both the public and private sector.
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Malaria misdiagnosis in Uganda – implications for policy change Joan Nankabirwa, Dejan Zurovac, Julius N Njogu, John B Rwakimari, Helen Counihan, Robert W Snow, James K Tibenderana Malaria Journal 2009, 8:66 (16 April 2009) An important study which shows very poor adherence to microscopy results, (much lower than expected malaria prevalence among sick people, and very poor field microscopy standards. The implications of these findings are discussed in a context where RDTs are likely to replace microscopy in some settings.
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