Longitudinal trends in malaria testing rates in the face of elimination in eastern Myanmar: a 7-year observational study
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DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11749-x
Abstract: Providing at-risk communities with uninterrupted access to early diagnosis and treatment is a key component in reducing malaria transmission and achieving elimination. As programmes approach malaria elimination targets it is critical that each case is… read more here.
Keywords: malaria post; malaria; year; elimination ... See more keywords
Household beliefs about malaria testing and treatment in Western Kenya: the role of health worker adherence to malaria test results
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DOI: 10.1186/s12936-017-1993-7
Abstract: BackgroundAlthough use of malaria diagnostic tests has increased in recent years, health workers often prescribe anti-malarial drugs to individuals who test negative for malaria. This study investigates how health worker adherence to malaria case management… read more here.
Keywords: act; health worker; testing treatment; health ... See more keywords
Principles, practices and knowledge of clinicians when assessing febrile children: a qualitative study in Kenya
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DOI: 10.1186/s12936-017-2021-7
Abstract: BackgroundClinicians in low resource settings in malaria endemic regions face many challenges in diagnosing and treating febrile illnesses in children. Given the change in WHO guidelines in 2010 that recommend malaria testing prior to treatment,… read more here.
Keywords: febrile illness; community; study; principles practices ... See more keywords
Digging for care-seeking behaviour among gold miners in the Guyana hinterland: a qualitative doer non-doer analysis of social and behavioural motivations for malaria testing and treatment
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DOI: 10.1186/s12936-020-03289-3
Abstract: Background Although Guyana has made significant progress toward malaria control, limited access to malaria testing and treatment services threatens those gains. Mining activities create breeding environments for mosquitoes, and the migrant and mobile mining populations… read more here.
Keywords: doer; treatment; moph; behaviour ... See more keywords
Determinants of malaria testing at health facilities: the case of Uganda
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DOI: 10.1186/s12936-021-03992-9
Abstract: Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends prompt malaria diagnosis with either microscopy or malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and treatment with an effective anti-malarial, as key interventions to control malaria. However, in sub-Saharan Africa,… read more here.
Keywords: malaria testing; health facilities; health; suspected malaria ... See more keywords
Community-Based Malaria Testing Reduces Polypharmacy in a Population-Based Survey of Febrile Illness in Western Kenya
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DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604826
Abstract: Objective: The objective was to describe the relationship between the location of care, the malaria test result, and the type of medicine consumed for the fever, and to determine whether community-based access to malaria testing… read more here.
Keywords: malaria testing; diagnostic testing; consumption; polypharmacy ... See more keywords