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The use of schools for malaria surveillance and programme evaluation in Africa

Simon Brooker*, Jan H Kolaczinski, Carol W Gitonga, Abdisalan M Noor and Robert W Snow

Malaria Journal 2009, 8:231 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-231

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Cost analysis of school-based intermittent screening and treatment of malaria in Kenya

Thomas L Drake, George Okello, Kiambo Njagi, Katherine E Halliday, Matthew CH Jukes, Lindsay Mangham, Simon Brooker Malaria Journal 2011, 10:273 (20 September 2011)

This paper analyses the costs of intermittent screening and treatment (IST) of malaria in schools on the Kenyan coast.In the current context, IST is a relatively expensive school-based malaria intervention, but costs can be reduced by simplifying the protocole.