Brazil currently contributes 42% of all malaria cases reported in the Latin America and the
Caribbean, a region where major progress towards malaria elimination has been achieved …

Across the Americas and the Caribbean, nearly 561,000 slide-confirmed malaria infections
were reported officially in 2008. The nine Amazonian countries accounted for 89% of these …

Background Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) has shown high protective efficacy
against clinical malaria and severe malaria in a series of clinical trials. We evaluated the …

Background Schistosomiasis and STH are among the list of neglected tropical diseases
considered for control by the WHO. Although both diseases are endemic in Zimbabwe, no …

Background Individual human subjects are differentially attractive to mosquitoes and other
biting insects. Previous investigations have demonstrated that this can be attributed partly to …

Background New frontier settlements across the Amazon Basin pose a major challenge for
malaria elimination in Brazil. Here we describe the epidemiology of malaria during the early …

Background As malaria endemic countries strive towards elimination, intensified spatial
heterogeneities of local transmission could undermine the effectiveness of traditional …

Background A key component of malaria elimination campaigns is the identification and
targeting of high risk populations. To characterize high risk populations in north central …

Determining the distribution of disease prevalence among heterogeneous populations at the
national scale is fundamental for epidemiology and public health. Here, we use a …

Background The cost of mosquito repellents in Latin America has discouraged their wider
use among the poor. To address this problem, a low-cost repellent was developed that …