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National malaria control programme (NMCP) Best Practice Sharing

Edited by: Prof Robert William Snow

Collection published: 27 October 2010

Last updated: 7 January 2011

Novartis has been hosting NMCP Best Practice Sharing Workshops for NMCP managers across Africa since 2006, to facilitate discussion and the exchange of experience between countries. The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) Best Practice Sharing Series enables local country data or pilot study data that has previously been presented at the Workshops to be communicated to a broader audience, as sharing such data / best practice may help to improve malaria management across Africa. Professor R.W. Snow is Guest-Editor for the series. Publication charges for the series are funded by Novartis Pharma.


Research   Open Access

Changes in health workers' malaria diagnosis and treatment practices in Kenya

Elizabeth Juma, Dejan Zurovac Malaria Journal 2011, 10:1 (7 January 2011)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central |  Editor’s summary

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.

Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

SMS for Life: a pilot project to improve anti-malarial drug supply management in rural Tanzania using standard technology

Jim Barrington, Olympia Wereko-Brobby, Peter Ward, Winfred Mwafongo, Seif Kungulwe Malaria Journal 2010, 9:298 (27 October 2010)

Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central |  Editor’s summary

Maintaining adequate supplies of anti-malarial medicines at the health facility level in rural sub-Saharan Africa is a major barrier to effective management of the disease. SMS for Life used mobile telephones, SMS messages and electronic mapping technology to facilitate stock-keeping of anti-malarials.