Food insecurity, recurrent famine, and poverty threaten the health of millions of African
residents. Construction of dams and rural irrigation schemes is key to solving these …

Malaria control programs in Africa encounter daunting challenges that hinder progressive
steps toward elimination of the disease. These challenges include widespread insecticide …

Water bodies such as dams are known to alter the local transmission patterns of a number of
infectious diseases, especially those transmitted by insects and other arthropod vectors. The …

Background Although the recent decline of malaria burden in some African countries has
been attributed to a scale-up of interventions, such as bed nets (insecticide-treated bed nets …

Malaria control in the impoverished, highly endemic settings of sub-Saharan Africa remains
a major public health challenge. Successes have been achieved only where sustained …

The construction of dams in sub-Saharan Africa is pivotal for food security and alleviating
poverty in the region. However, the unintended adverse public health implications of …

Abstract Background Malaria in western Kenya is currently characterized by sustained high
Plasmodial transmission and infection resurgence, despite positive responses in some …

Abstract: Malaria transmission and prevalence involves a triangular web of interactions
between man, vector, and the environment. Any meaningful effort in malaria control …

Cameroon, a west-central African country with a~ 20 million population, is commonly
regarded as 'Africa in miniature'due to the extensive biological and cultural diversities of …

Locally specific epidemiological understanding is pivotal to the success of malaria
elimination in South Africa. Here, we focus on how the host, vector, parasite and …