Background Pneumonia, diarrhoea, and malaria are among the leading causes of death in
children. These deaths are largely preventable if appropriate care is sought early. This …

For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured
billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the …

The ways in which people respond to sickness differ greatly from society to society. In this
book anthropologist and epidemiologist Robert A. Hahn examines how Western and non …

A very large private health sector exists in low-income countries. It consists of a great variety
of providers and is used by a wide cross-section of the population. There are substantial …

A review of literature on treatment seeking for malaria was undertaken to identify patterns of
care seeking, and to assess what is known about the adequacy of the treatments used …

Malaria is still a major cause of death and severe illness among children in many parts of
tropical Africa, but only a small proportion of children, perhaps 1–2%, who become ill with …

Medicine sellers are widely used for fever and malaria treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, but
concerns surround the appropriateness of drugs and information provided. There is …

A research infrastructure was established in two ecological zones in southern Ghana to
study the variables of malaria transmission and provide information to support the country's …

Parasite resistance to conventional antimalarial medicines has led, in recent years, to a
dramatic shift in malaria treatment. Sixty-seven countries with endemic Plasmodium …

Malaria is an increasing worldwide threat, with more than three hundred million infections
and one million deaths every year. The worlds poorest are the worst affected, and many treat …