Reports on a malaria prevention program in Tanzania which gave infants antimalarial drugs intermittently during their first year. Comparison of malaria outbreaks between children who had received the intermittent treatment with those that were given regular doses of the medication; Continued immunity among...
“1–3–7” practices to suit Tanzania’s health system structure and malaria control priorities, activated inter-sectoral coordination mechanisms within the Tanzania government, leveraged funding from both international donors and China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and developed tools for diagnosis, ...
For the anti-malaria project in Tanzania, China sent its first-ever team to Africa that was made up mainly of public health experts to work with a local team on designing prevention and control measures, Wang noted. China dispatched experts from the NIPD to work with a local team fro...
The independent effect of living in malaria hotspots on future malaria infection: an observational study from Misungwi, Tanzania As malaria transmission declines, continued improvements of prevention and control interventions will increasingly rely on accurate knowledge of risk facto... JF Mosha,HJ Stur...
This is to be achieved through scale-up for impact (SUFI) of World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended prevention and control measures in order to provide protection for all at-risk Nigerians. Specific targets set by the National Malaria Control Strategic Plan for 2009-2013 include: at least...
The aim of this study was to investigate the management of malaria by traditional healers in different areas in Tanzania. This included looking at the perception, the causation concepts and the knowledge about prevention of the disease/illness of malaria. For this purpose traditional healers were ...
for the fetus and reduces birthweight. Symptomatic infections need prompt treatment, but prevention is better for both mother and baby. This can be achieved by chemoprophylaxis, although there is currently no satisfactory safe drug for falciparum malaria prevention. Chloroquine is regarded as safe in...
Kongo Central, DRC studies are available athttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RNWYR8. All data used in the analysis of the MOMS Project cohort (Muheza, Tanzania) are available under human data transfer agreement for purposes of reproducing or extending the analysis. Data for the Cameroon study are...
Prevalence and density related concordance of three diagnostic tests for malaria in hypoendemic tanzania. p pBackground/p pThe impact of malaria on the risk of stillbirth is still under debate. The aim of the present analysis was to determine comparative change... S Schachterle,G Mtove,J Lev...
their newborns. The sample size was computed based on the formulan=Z2∗ (P∗ Q)/i2wherenis the desired sample size. Based on a study in Tanzania, the proportion of parturients with positive parasitaemia at childbirth was around 12% [15]. We opted for this sampling for two ...