Background Rapid population growth in Africa requires an urgent expansion and
improvement of housing options. Improving housing presents a promising opportunity for …

Background In malaria-endemic areas, residents of modern houses have less malaria than
those living in traditional houses. We aimed to assess whether children in The Gambia …

Introduction Unprecedented improvements in housing are occurring across much of rural
sub-Saharan Africa, but the consequences of these changes on malaria transmission …

Background In the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, rapid and spontaneous scale-up of
window screening occurred through purely horizontal commercial distribution systems …

Background: Heterogeneity in malaria transmission has household, temporal, and spatial
components. These factors are relevant for improving the efficiency of malaria control by …

Background The population of sub-Saharan Africa is currently estimated to be 1245 million
and is expected to quadruple by the end of the century, necessitating the building of millions …

Background Good house construction may reduce the risk of malaria by limiting the entry of
mosquito vectors. We assessed how house design may affect mosquito house entry and …

Despite the use of accepted interventions to combat malaria, such as insecticide-treated bed
nets and artemisinin-based combination therapy, malaria remains a leading cause of …

Background Previous studies demonstrated that fewer mosquitoes enter houses which are
screened or have closed eaves. There is little evidence about the effect on malaria infection …

Background The global malaria burden has fallen since 2000, sometimes before large-scale
vector control programmes were initiated. While long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and …