School-age children are a reservoir of malaria infection in Malawi

JA Walldorf, LM Cohee, JE Coalson, A Bauleni… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Malaria surveillance and interventions in endemic countries often target young children at
highest risk of malaria morbidity and mortality. We aimed to determine whether school-age …

[HTML][HTML] Methodological considerations for use of routine health information system data to evaluate malaria program impact in an era of declining malaria …

RA Ashton, A Bennett, J Yukich… - The American journal …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Coverage of malaria control interventions is increasing dramatically across endemic
countries. Evaluating the impact of malaria control programs and specific interventions on …

[HTML][HTML] Malaria transmission, infection, and disease at three sites with varied transmission intensity in Uganda: implications for malaria control

MR Kamya, E Arinaitwe, H Wanzira… - The American journal …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The intensification of control interventions has led to marked reductions in malaria burden in
some settings, but not others. To provide a comprehensive description of malaria …

A systematic review of changing malaria disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa since 2000: comparing model predictions and empirical observations

A Kamau, P Mogeni, EA Okiro, RW Snow, P Bejon - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background The most widely used measures of declining burden of malaria across sub-
Saharan Africa are predictions from geospatial models. These models apply spatiotemporal …

[HTML][HTML] Defining service catchment areas in low-resource settings

PM Macharia, N Ray, E Giorgi, EA Okiro… - BMJ Global …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The commentary is structured into four sections. We discuss the need for recording and
geolocating user addresses followed by a summary of approaches used to define service …

Taking the health aid debate to the subnational level: the impact and allocation of foreign health aid in Malawi

R Marty, CB Dolan, M Leu, D Runfola - BMJ global health, 2017 - gh.bmj.com
Objective Cross-national studies provide inconclusive results as to the effectiveness of
foreign health aid. We highlight a novel application of using subnational data to evaluate aid …

Knowledge of prevention, cause, symptom and practices of malaria among women in Burkina Faso

S Yaya, G Bishwajit, M Ekholuenetale, V Shah… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Malaria remains a major public health issue in most southern African countries
as the disease remains hyper endemic. Burkina Faso continues to face challenges in the …

Estimating malaria parasite prevalence from community surveys in Uganda: a comparison of microscopy, rapid diagnostic tests and polymerase chain reaction

JI Nankabirwa, A Yeka, E Arinaitwe, R Kigozi… - Malaria journal, 2015 - Springer
Background Household surveys are important tools for monitoring the malaria disease
burden and measuring impact of malaria control interventions with parasite prevalence as …

Trends in reported malaria cases and the effects of malaria control in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

F Lechthaler, B Matthys, G Lechthaler-Felber… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Considerable upscaling of malaria control efforts have taken place over the last
15 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country with the second highest malaria …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping malaria transmission intensity in Malawi, 2000–2010

A Bennett, L Kazembe, DP Mathanga… - The American journal …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Substantial development assistance has been directed towards reducing the high malaria
burden in Malawi over the past decade. We assessed changes in transmission over this …