Abstract
Lorenz von Seidlein and Jakob Knudsen discuss the changes in malaria incidence recorded at a single site in Africa over 25 years, along with future implications for disease prevention.
Highlights
Malaria burden is much reduced, it remains unacceptably high; what can be done to reduce malaria transmission further?
Malaria control programmes originating from the last century target infants, with a focus on adding malaria-related interventions to the expanded program on immunisation (EPI)
Mogeni and colleagues show that in Kilifi County, Insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) were highly protective; children who live in communities with high bednet use were less likely to present with P. falciparum infections, compared to children in communities with low bednet usage
Summary
Malaria burden is much reduced, it remains unacceptably high; what can be done to reduce malaria transmission further?. Mogeni and colleagues present a unique dataset collected from 69,104 children aged from 3 months to 13 years admitted over the last 25 years to Kilifi County Hospital, Kenya. In 1998, 56% of the children were admitted with malaria, presumably mostly caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
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