The replacement of conventional antimalarial drugs with high-cost, artemisinin-based
alternatives has created a gap in the successful management of malaria. This gap reflects …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization recommends parasitological
confirmation of malaria prior to treatment. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) represent …

Gender inequality damages the health of millions of girls and women across the globe. It can
also be damaging to men's health despite the many tangible benefits it gives men through …

OBJECTIVE: To review individual case histories of children who had died of pneumonia in
rural Uganda and to investigate why these children did not survive. METHODS: This case …

Ethiopia has scaled up integrated community case management of childhood illness (iCCM)
in most regions. We assessed the strength of iCCM implementation and the quality of care …

Background Access to prompt and effective treatment is a cornerstone of the current malaria
control strategy. Delays in starting appropriate treatment is a major contributor to malaria …

A systematic literature review was conducted to assess the effectiveness of strategies to
improve community case management (CCM) of malaria. Forty-three studies were included; …

Background Home-based management of malaria (HMM) is promoted as a major strategy to
improve prompt delivery of effective malaria treatment in Africa. HMM involves presumptively …

Background Plasmodium falciparum resistance to anti-malarial drugs remains a major
obstacle to the control of malaria. In 2001 Tanzania replaced chloroquine (CQ) with …

Since 2010, the World Health Organization has been recommending that all suspected
cases of malaria be confirmed with parasite-based diagnosis before treatment. These …