Anemia is a globally widespread condition in women and is associated with reduced economic productivity and increased mortality worldwide. Here we map annual 2000–2018 geospatial estimates of anemia prevalence
However, the severity of TB epidemics varies significantly across countries, with effective control of TB in high-burden countries is crucial. According to the Global TB report 2023, the eight countries mentioned accounted for two-thirds of the global TB cases in 2022: India (27.0%), Indonesia...
Merle1* and RTSS-SMC working group Abstract A workshop on implementation strategies for the introduction of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine in countries with areas of highly seasonal transmission, was held as a hybrid meeting in Dakar, Senegal,...
The Commonwealth, with a third of the global population accounts for over half of all malaria cases and deaths. Currently, Nigeria, the United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique, now account for 66 percent of all malaria burden. These countries are currently not on track to accomplish ...
Such acts of bribery at the level of daily interactions of patients with health services may look small in scale, but they “represent millions of negative interactions and have an enormous and damaging effect on our efforts to improve health” (Garcia, 2019 p. 2121). In addition to ...
Malaria infections during pregnancy are an important cause of preterm birth in many LMICs, especially sub- Saharan African countries where malaria infection in pregnancy is common [5]. Malaria is associated with up to 36% of all preterm or low birth weight (LBW) infants born in malaria endemic...
Modeling the Impact of Proactive Community Case Management on Reducing Confirmed Malaria Cases in Sub-Saharan African Countriesdoi:10.4269/ajtmh.23-0844Yifan WangXingjian WangGurbaxani, BrianGutman, Julie R.Keskinocak, PinarSmalley, Hannah K.
Thus, because of the flow of imported cases from high- to low-transmission settings, the latter will face difficulties in achieving elimination and maintaining malaria-free status if it is achieved43. Nevertheless, despite the importance of these dynamics being long recognized45,46, attempts to ...
Ebola caused a spike in malaria cases in the three West African countries heavily affected by the disease which have undermined previous efforts to curb malaria. Thousands of malaria cases went untreated in Guinea in 2014 as people with symptoms avoided health clinics for the fear of being sent ...
Six infectious diseases were among the top ten causes of DALYs in children younger than 10 years in 2019: lower respiratory infections (ranked second), diarrhoeal diseases (third), malaria (fifth), meningitis (sixth), whooping cough (ninth), and sexually transmitted infections (which, in this ...