Changes in the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa

WP O'Meara, JN Mangeni, R Steketee… - The Lancet infectious …, 2010 - thelancet.com
The burden of malaria in countries in sub-Saharan Africa has declined with scaling up of
prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. To assess the contribution of specific malaria …

The complex epidemiological relationship between flooding events and human outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases: a scoping review

JE Coalson, EJ Anderson, EM Santos… - Environmental …, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of flooding events.
Although rainfall is highly correlated with mosquito-borne diseases (MBD) in humans, less …

Development of temporal modelling for forecasting and prediction of malaria infections using time-series and ARIMAX analyses: a case study in endemic districts of …

K Wangdi, P Singhasivanon, T Silawan, S Lawpoolsri… - Malaria Journal, 2010 - Springer
Background Malaria still remains a public health problem in some districts of Bhutan despite
marked reduction of cases in last few years. To strengthen the country's prevention and …

'A bite before bed': exposure to malaria vectors outside the times of net use in the highlands of western Kenya

MK Cooke, SC Kahindi, RM Oriango, C Owaga… - Malaria Journal, 2015 - Springer
Background The human population in the highlands of Nyanza Province, western Kenya, is
subject to sporadic epidemics of Plasmodium falciparum. Indoor residual spraying (IRS) and …

Impact of national malaria control scale-up programmes in Africa: magnitude and attribution of effects

RW Steketee, CC Campbell - Malaria journal, 2010 - Springer
Background Since 2005, malaria control scale-up has progressed in many African countries.
Controlled studies of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs), indoor residual spraying …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the relationship between precipitation and malaria incidence in children from a holoendemic area in Ghana

AC Krefis, NG Schwarz, A Krüger, J Fobil… - The American journal …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Climatic factors influence the incidence of vector-borne diseases such as malaria. They
modify the abundance of mosquito populations, the length of the extrinsic parasite cycle in …

[HTML][HTML] Continuing intense malaria transmission in northern Uganda

C Proietti, DD Pettinato, BN Kanoi, E Ntege… - The American journal …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent reports of reductions in malaria transmission in several African countries have
resulted in optimism that malaria can be eliminated in parts of Africa where it is currently …

Association of climatic variability, vector population and malarial disease in district of Visakhapatnam, India: a modeling and prediction analysis

RCPK Srimath-Tirumula-Peddinti, NRR Neelapu… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Malarial incidence, severity, dynamics and distribution of malaria are strongly
determined by climatic factors, ie, temperature, precipitation, and relative humidity. The …

Climate change and health in the Eastern Mediterranean countries: a systematic review

YS Khader, M Abdelrahman, N Abdo… - Reviews on …, 2015 - degruyter.com
Objectives: To summarize the existing knowledge of the impact of climate change on health
from previous research in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR) and identify knowledge …

Multi-step polynomial regression method to model and forecast malaria incidence

C Chatterjee, RR Sarkar - PLoS One, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Malaria is one of the most severe problems faced by the world even today. Understanding
the causative factors such as age, sex, social factors, environmental variability etc. as well as …