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Open Access | Short Report: Malaria among antenatal clients attending primary health care facilities in Kano state, Nigeria

Author(s): 
AU Gajida, Z Iliyasu, AI Zoakah
Reference: 
Annals of African Medicine, Volume : 9 Issue : 3 2010 Page : 188-193

Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) should be provided especially among primigravid, secondigravid and younger mothers at PHC centres.

Open Access | Poverty and fever vulnerability in Nigeria: a multilevel analysis

Author(s): 
Yusuf OB, Adeoye BW, Oladepo OO, Peters DH, Bishai D
Reference: 
Malaria Journal 2010, 9:235 (19 August 2010)
Contact email: 
bidemi_yusuf@yahoo.com

While, overall bednet possession was low, less fever was reported in households that possessed bednets. Malaria control strategies and interventions should be designed that will target the poor and make an impact on poverty.

Open Access | Estimating the Global Clinical Burden of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in 2007

Author(s): 
Simon I. Hay, Emelda A. Okiro, Peter W. Gething, Anand P. Patil, Andrew J. Tatem, Carlos A. Guerra, Robert W. Snow
Reference: 
PLoS Med 7(6): e1000290
Contact email: 
simon.hay@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Cartographic approaches to burden estimation provide a globally consistent measure of malaria morbidity of known fidelity, and they represent the only plausible method in those malaria-endemic countries with nonfunctional national surveillance.

Open Access | Anti-malarial drug quality in Lagos and Accra - a comparison of various quality assessments

Author(s): 
Bate R, Hess K
Reference: 
Malaria Journal 2010, 9:157 (11 June 2010)
Contact email: 
rbate@aei.org

The evidence presented shows that drug quality is probably improving in both cities, especially Lagos, since major reductions of failure rates over time occur with all means of assessment. Many more samples failed when examined by Raman spectrometry than by Minilab protocol.

Informal payments for healthcare: Differences in expenditures from consumers and providers perspectives for treatment of malaria in Nigeria

Author(s): 
Obinna Onwujekwe, Nkem Dike, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Ogochukwu Ezeoke
Reference: 
Health Policy, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2010, Pages 72-79
Contact email: 
onwujekwe@yahoo.co.uk

The differences in malaria treatment expenditures from consumers’ and providers’ perspectives point to high levels of informal payments, which worsen the economic burden of the disease and may predispose to catastrophic health spending.

Open Access | Research: Malaria knowledge and agricultural practices that promote mosquito breeding in two rural farming communities in Oyo State, Nigeria

Author(s): 
Oladepo O, Tona GO, Oshiname FO, Titiloye MA
Reference: 
Malaria Journal 2010, 9:91 (9 April 2010)
Contact email: 
oladepod@yahoo.com

Farmers are at high risk of malaria - a disease which seriously impacts on agricultural productivity. Unfortunately, information relating to agricultural practices and behavioural antecedent factors, that could assist malaria programmers plan and implement interventions to reduce risk of infections among farmers, is scanty.

Rural–urban differences in health-seeking for the treatment of childhood malaria in south-east Nigeria

Author(s): 
Theodora A. Okeke, Joseph C. Okeibunor
Reference: 
Health Policy, Volume 95, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 62-68
Contact email: 
thdokeke@yahoo.co.uk

Urban and rural mothers differed in their responses to childhood fevers. Training drug vendors and caretakers are important measures to improve malaria control. Health facilities with good quality services and readily available drugs should be provided.

Quartan malaria-associated childhood nephrotic syndrome: now a rare clinical entity in malaria endemic Nigeria

Author(s): 
Wasiu A. Olowu, Kayode A. Adelusola, Olufemi Adefehinti, and Tajudeen G. Oyetunji
Reference: 
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 2010; 25:794-801
Contact email: 
yetundeolowu@yahoo.com

The study determined (i) whether or not quartan malaria nephropathy (QMN) is still a major cause of childhood nephrotic syndrome (CNS) in Nigeria, (ii) secondary causes other than QMN and their associated glomerular pathology and (iii) renal and patient outcome.

Open Access | Willingness to pay for rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria: ex post and ex ante

Author(s): 
Benjamin SC Uzochukwu, Obinna E Onwujekwe, Nkoli P Uguru, Maduka D Ughasoro and Ogochukwu P Ezeoke
Reference: 
International Journal for Equity in Health 2010, 9:1
Contact email: 
bscuzochukwu@yahoo.com

The introduction of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) has improved the diagnosis and treatment of malaria. However, any successful control of malaria will depend on socio-economic factors that influence its management in the community.

Open Access | Factors contributing to delay in parasite clearance in uncomplicated falciparum malaria in children

Author(s): 
Akintunde Sowunmi, Elsie O Adewoye, Grace O Gbotsho, Christian T Happi, Abayomi Sijuade, Onikepe A Folarin, Titilope M Okuboyejo, Obaro S Michael
Reference: 
Malaria Journal 2010, 9:53 (15 February 2010)
Contact email: 
akinsowunmi@hotmail.com

The study reports on the relationship between delay in parasite clearance and anti-malarial treatment failure in children with falciparum malaria in an area of intense transmission in south-western Nigeria.

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