Lack of Decline in Childhood Malaria, Malawi, 2001-2010

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2012 Feb 7

PMID 22305090

Citations 44

Authors

Arantxa Roca-Feltrer

Collins J Kwizombe

Miguel A SanJoaquin

Sanie S S Sesay

Brian Faragher

Jim Harrison

Karen Geukers

Storn Kabuluzi

Don P Mathanga

Elizabeth Molyneux

Maganizo Chagomera

Terrie Taylor

Malcolm Molyneux

Robert S Heyderman

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Abstract

In some areas of Africa, health facility data have indicated declines in malaria that might have resulted from increasingly effective control programs. Most such reports have been from countries where malaria transmission is highly seasonal or of modest intensity. In Malawi, perennial malaria transmission is intense, and malaria control measures have been scaled up during the past decade. We examined health facility data for children seen as outpatients and parasitemia-positive children hospitalized with cerebral malaria in a large national hospital. The proportion of Plasmodium falciparum-positive slides among febrile children at the hospital declined early in the decade, but no further reductions were observed after 2005. The number of admissions for cerebral malaria did not differ significantly by year. Continued surveillance for malaria is needed to evaluate the effects of the increased malaria control efforts.

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