CHILD COVERAGE WITH MOSQUITO NETS AND MALARIA TREATMENT FROM POPULATION-BASED SURVEYS IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES: A BASELINE FOR MONITORING PROGRESS IN ROLL BACK MALARIA
| Autor: | Eline L. Korenromp, Roeland Monasch, Annette Reinisch, Richard W. Steketee, Yves Bergevin, David Alnwick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Insecticides
medicine.medical_specialty Mosquito Control Psychological intervention Child Welfare Antimalarials Chloroquine Surveys and Questionnaires Virology Outcome Assessment Health Care parasitic diseases Health care Humans Medicine Africa South of the Sahara Family Characteristics Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys business.industry Infant Newborn Bedding and Linens Infant medicine.disease Malaria Benchmarking Infectious Diseases El Niño Child Preschool Population Surveillance Tropical medicine Mosquito net Parasitology business Demography medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 71:232-238 |
| ISSN: | 1476-1645 0002-9637 |
| Popis: | We assessed the proportion of febrile children less than five years old with prompt effective antimalarial treatment and the proportion of those less than five years old sleeping under insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) or any mosquito net the preceding night in African malarious countries. Data were reviewed from 23 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and 13 Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 1998 and 2002. A median of 53% of febrile children received antimalarial treatment. A median of 84% of these treatments, however, involved chloroquine, and the proportion of treatments given within two days of onset of symptoms was unknown in most surveys. Median coverages of those less than five years old with any net and ITNs were 15% and 2%, respectively. Use of nets, and especially ITNs, was consistently lower in rural than in urban areas. At the outset of intensified malaria control under Roll Back Malaria, coverage with principal interventions was far below the target of 60% set for Africa in 2005. |
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