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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Background Since 2005, malaria control scale-up has progressed in many African countries.
Controlled studies of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs), indoor residual spraying …

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 …

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 …

Background Malarial incidence, severity, dynamics and distribution of malaria are strongly
determined by climatic factors, ie, temperature, precipitation, and relative humidity. The …

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 …

Background Understanding malaria vector mosquitoes and their infectivity dynamics is of
importance in setting up intervention and control programmes. Patterns of malaria …