[PDF] Top 20 What will move malaria control to elimination in South Africa?

... The Malaria Control Programme in SA has prepared a costed malaria elimination plan for the period 2012 - 2018 and the anticipated cost of implementing the elimination strategy is ... See full document

... and South Africa between 2001 and 2002 to evaluate treatment-seeking behaviour for malaria-related events ...of malaria (previous month) sought treatment, with ...towards malaria in ... See full document

... implementing malaria elimi- nation strategy in this study are comparable to user-fee exemption policy in health facilities in Ghana [12], health providers’ implementation of abortion policy in Ghana [41] and the ... See full document

... in malaria control, to whom we are most ...the Elimination Scenario Planning manual, we would like to thank: Justin Cohen, Deepika Kandula, Bruno Moonen and Oliver Sabot from the Clinton Health ... See full document

... achieving malaria elimination targets, reports of primaquine resistance, the only available treatment to prevent relapse, is particularly worrisome ...effective malaria con- trol is a lack of ... See full document

... South Africa employs definitive diagnosis for malaria case confirmation and ...treatment. Malaria diagnosis and treatment is provided free of charge in public sector facil- ...its ... See full document

... vector control is undertaken in the three malari- ous provinces of South ...active malaria control and surveillance programme are sprayed by trained and qualified spray ... See full document

... effective control meas- ures since 2001 has substantially reduced malaria trans- mission intensity (MTI) in South Africa ...(WHO) malaria elimination threshold of <one case ... See full document

... towards malaria control and elimination achieved in South America in the 2000s, this mosquito-transmitted tropical disease remains an important public health concern in the ...Most ... See full document

... in Africa, possibly due to higher use of vector control in Africa, as well as size and development status of the coun- try ...for malaria is broader and more costly, encompassing LLINs, ... See full document

... national malaria programmes and other key stakeholders face difficult decisions on where to focus available ...on what scale becomes increas- ingly important in these ...for malaria control ... See full document

... the malaria elimin- ation efforts, it is important for the malaria control programme to further tighten the malaria control interven- tions in order to effectively interrupt local ... See full document

... and Malaria. The South African Innovation Fund contributed toward the Decision Support System for the ...Durban, South Africa, Telephone: 27-31-20304700, Fax: 27-31-203-4701, E-mail: ...4091, ... See full document

... Malaria control and elimination strategies are being accelerated in Southeast Asia and the Greater Mekong region and have mainly focused to halt the spread of artemisinin resistance using multiple ... See full document

... in malaria prevalence (approximately 98%) and number of deaths (12 to three) was ...country-wide elimination of ...imported malaria infections from neighbouring ...the elimination goal, the ... See full document

... collaborative control efforts on the burden of malaria in southern Africa has previously been demonstrated through the successes of the Lubombo Spatial Development ...in malaria cases recorded ... See full document

... for malaria control and elimination have been developed and imple- mented, namely the traditional CHW (tCHW) model, Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM), and Home Management of Malaria ... See full document

... of malaria mortality and morbidity has declined remarkably over the past 12 years to such an extent that malaria elimination is now possible in KZN and some districts of Limpopo and ...sustained ... See full document

... Both malaria-related morbidity and mortality have decreased significantly across all three malaria-endemic provinces since ...the malaria cases reported in Limpopo Province, currently it is the ... See full document

... the malaria target of the MDGs, universal coverage of malaria control interventions and the RBM targets of ...national malaria control programme in 2010, Nepal has adopted a long-term ... See full document