October 2012
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
Has AMFm been effective? How will it continue in the future?Read more
April 2012
Malaria, Malaria
Why have there been so many historical failures to maintain gains in malaria control?Read more
September 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
August 2011
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
This report surveys antibiotic use and resistance in Kenya and offers actionable policy proposals to lessen the burden of bacterial infections in the country.Read more
June 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
With malaria once again nearing elimination in Zanzibar, will a disruption in funding cause a resurgence in the disease?Read more
March 2011
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) have expanded in the past decade. What are the characteristics of current ASPs and what barriers remain to their implementation?Read more
December 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
December 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
What is the knowledge and what are the perceptions of hospital staff in Kenya on antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use practices?Read more
December 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria, Health and Development
In examining potential short-term to medium-term financial savings, what are the marginal costs and benefits of converting malaria programmes from a control to an elimination goal?Read more
November 2010
Malaria, Malaria
What is the cost-effectiveness of an intervention to supply prereferral rectal artesunate to children with suspected malaria?Read more
November 2010
Malaria, Health and Development, Malaria
What strategies best support malaria elimination, taking into account both transmission within an endemic country and imported cases of the disease?Read more
November 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
What is the relative feasibility of eliminating malaria across malaria-endemic countries?Read more
November 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
What do we mean when we talk about malaria control vs. elimination vs. eradication? This paper provides a historical overview of terminology, and proposes new conceptual definitions.Read more
June 2010
Malaria, Malaria
The mapping here of both communities of countries linked by likely higher levels of infection movement, and natural migration boundaries that display reduced movement of people and infections between regions has practical utility. These maps can inform the design of malaria elimination strategies...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Malaria
Chapter 3 provides recommendations on how to conduct an assessment of two key factors that will affect preventing the reemergence of malaria once transmission is interrupted, namely, outbreak risk and importation risk. The chapter emphasizes the need for a strong surveillance system in order to...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Health and Development
May 2010
Health and Development, Malaria
Each year, malaria kills approximately one million people and causes approximately 500million clinical episodes, but todays outlook for doing something about malaria is cautiously optimistic. New funding and attention are available from international donor agencies to attack malaria with powerful...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
May 2010
Malaria, Malaria
Background: The efficient allocation of financial resources for malaria control using appropriate combinations of interventions requires accurate information on the geographic distribution of malaria risk. An evidence-based description of the global range of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and its...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Malaria
The quantification of malaria transmission for the classification of malaria risk has long been a concern for epidemiologists. During the era of the Global Malaria Eradication Programme, measurements of malaria endemicity were institutionalised by their incorporation into rules outlining defined...Read more
May 2010
Environmental Health, Malaria
Background: Efficient allocation of resources to intervene against malaria requires a detailed understanding of the contemporary spatial distribution of malaria risk. It is exactly 40 y since the last global map of malaria endemicity was published. This paper describes the generation of a new world...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Malaria
BACKGROUND: Effective malaria control has successfully reduced the malaria burden in many countries, but to eliminate malaria, these countries will need to further improve their control efforts. Here, a malaria control programme was critically evaluated in a very low-endemicity Thai-Myanmar border...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance is on the rise, imposing enormous costs on society and spurring concerns about the treatment of infectious diseases. The problem can be traced to the widespread overuse of the readily available drugs. Policymakers should consider creating economic incentives to encourage...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Malaria
The global fight against malaria has been continually challenged by poor access to affordable, effective medicine. Growing resistance to chloroquine, the traditional treatment, has worsened the situation. Artemisinins, the successor therapy to chloroquine, are at least ten times more costly than...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Alcohol and Tobacco
Due to the failure to increase nominal rates in line with inflation, federal and state alcohol taxes have fallen from about 22 percent of the pretax retail price of alcoholic beverages in 1980 to about 10 percent at present. Is it time to reverse this declining trend and substantially raise tax...Read more
May 2010
Alcohol and Tobacco, Malaria
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
Background: The scaling up of malaria control and renewed calls for malaria eradication have raised interest in defining timelines for changes in malaria endemicity.Methods: The epidemiological theory for the decline in the Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate (PfPR, the prevalence of infection)...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
Chapter 7 provides a precise language for discussing malaria and gives the elimination discussion a quantitative structure. Chapter 7 describes the role of epidemiological theory and mathematical modeling in defining and updating an elimination agenda for malaria.Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Environmental Health
A structured expert judgment study was organized to obtain input data for a microbial risk-assessment model describing the transmission of campylobacter during broiler-chicken processing in the Netherlands. More specially, the expert study was aimed at quantifying the uncertainty on input...Read more
