Spatial connectivity in mosquito-borne disease models: a systematic review of methods and assumptions

SA Lee, CI Jarvis, WJ Edmunds… - Journal of The …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Spatial connectivity plays an important role in mosquito-borne disease transmission.
Connectivity can arise for many reasons, including shared environments, vector ecology and …

Malaria elimination in Botswana, 2012–2014: achievements and challenges

S Chihanga, U Haque, E Chanda, T Mosweunyane… - Parasites & …, 2016 - Springer
Background Botswana significantly reduced its malaria burden between 2000 and 2012.
Incidence dropped from 0.99 to 0.01% and deaths attributed to malaria declined from 12 to …

Does livestock protect from malaria or facilitate malaria prevalence? A cross-sectional study in endemic rural areas of Indonesia

H Hasyim, M Dhimal, J Bauer, D Montag… - Malaria journal, 2018 - Springer
Background Ever since it was discovered that zoophilic vectors can transmit malaria,
zooprophylaxis has been used to prevent the disease. However, zoopotentiation has also …

Influence of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological factors on presence of malaria at the community level in two continents

OC Villena, A Arab, CA Lippi, SJ Ryan, LR Johnson - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The interactions of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological
factors in shaping mosquito-borne disease transmission dynamics are complex and …

An urban-to-rural continuum of malaria risk: new analytic approaches characterize patterns in Malawi

PS Larson, JNS Eisenberg, VJ Berrocal, DP Mathanga… - Malaria journal, 2021 - Springer
Background The urban–rural designation has been an important risk factor in infectious
disease epidemiology. Many studies rely on a politically determined dichotomization of rural …

[HTML][HTML] Farming systems and conservation agriculture: Technology, structures and agency in Malawi

EKK Jew, S Whitfield, AJ Dougill, DD Mkwambisi… - Land Use Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is advocated as an agricultural innovation that will improve
smallholder famer resilience to future climate change. Under the conditions presented by the …

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 …

The effects of seasonal climate variability on dengue annual incidence in Hong Kong: A modelling study

HY Yuan, J Liang, PS Lin, K Sucipto, MM Tsegaye… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
In recent years, dengue has been rapidly spreading and growing in the tropics and
subtropics. Located in southern China, Hong Kong's subtropical monsoon climate may …

Climate drivers of malaria transmission seasonality and their relative importance in sub‐Saharan Africa

EI Yamba, AH Fink, K Badu, EO Asare… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A new database of the Entomological Inoculation Rate (EIR) was used to directly link the risk
of infectious mosquito bites to climate in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Applying a statistical mixed …

[HTML][HTML] Using rainfall and temperature data in the evaluation of national malaria control programs in Africa

MC Thomson, I Ukawuba, CL Hershey… - The American journal …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since 2010, the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, including National Malaria Control
Programs, donor agencies (eg, President's Malaria Initiative and Global Fund), and other …