Trends, measurements and indicators
Each year, up to three million deaths are due to malaria, and close to five billion episodes occur in the world. 90 per cent of the burden is in Africa, affecting mainly children. HIV-infected women experience more malaria and adverse birth outcomes than HIV-uninfected women.
There is also a correlation between malaria and poverty. However, the nature of the linkages and mechanisms of causation is less clear. Data to monitor progress in malaria control come from the health facility, household surveys, remote sensing and modelling. Progress on the coverage of interventions in Africa has been summarised in the 2003 Africa Malaria Report.
- Evaluation of rapid diagnostic tests: malaria
- This paper, published in Nature Reviews Microbiology, provides guidelines for evaluating the effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in diagnosing malaria. The paper describes the different types of malaria RDTs and the importance of evaluating them.
Recommended reading
- Africa malaria report 2003
- ( Roll Back Malaria, World Health Organization (WHO) , 2003)
- With the renewed international commitment to fighting malaria, the need for regular and reliable information on the global malaria situation is greater than it has ever been. This report, published jo...
- Conquering the intolerable burden of malaria: what’s new, what’s needed: a summary
- ( J.G. Breman; M.S. Alilio; A. Mills / American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- Each year, up to three million deaths due to malaria occur throughout the world, with Africa bearing more than 90 per cent of this burden. There has been growing optimism regarding improvements to mal...
- The Abuja Declaration and the Plan of Action
- ( Roll Back Malaria, World Health Organization (WHO) , 2003)
- Recommended reading
- The Abuja Declaration on Roll Back Malaria in Africa is the result of a summit on malaria held in Abuja, Nigeria in April 2000. Representatives of 44 African governments and the major international do...
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- Guidelines for evaluating rapid diagnostic tests
- ( D. Bell; R.W. Peeling / Nature Reviews Microbiology , 2007)
- This paper, published in Nature Reviews Microbiology, provides guidelines for evaluating the effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in diagnosing malaria. The paper describes the different typ...
- Young children account for one-half of the deaths from infectious diseases
- ( M. M. Kent; S. Yin / Population Reference Bureau , 2006)
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- This bulletin from the Population Reference Bureau investigates the major health threats from infectious and parasitic diseases, with a special focus on diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, and tuberculosis....
- Malaria may cut life expectancy by up to nine years: results from northern Ghana
- ( A.A. Bawah; F.N. Binka / Population Council, USA , 2005)
- This paper from the Population Council examines the impact of deaths from malaria on overall mortality in an area classified as hyper-endemic (having a very high rate of malaria infection within its p...
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