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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Urban Malaria: Understanding its Epidemiology, Ecology, and Transmission Across Seven Diverse ICEMR Network Sites
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, Volume 93, No. 3, Year 2015
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Description
A major public health question is whether urbanization will transform malaria from a rural to an urban disease. However, differences about definitions of urban settings, urban malaria, and whether malaria control should differ between rural and urban areas complicate both the analysis of available data and the development of intervention strategies. This report examines the approach of the International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) to urban malaria in Brazil, Colombia, India (Chennai and Goa), Malawi, Senegal, and Uganda. Its major theme is the need to determine whether cases diagnosed in urban areas were imported from surrounding rural areas or resulted from transmission within the urban area. If infections are being acquired within urban areas, malaria control measures must be targeted within those urban areas to be effective. Conversely, if malaria cases are being imported from rural areas, control measures must be directed at vectors, breeding sites, and infected humans in those rural areas. Similar interventions must be directed differently if infections were acquired within urban areas. The hypothesis underlying the ICEMR approach to urban malaria is that optimal control of urban malaria depends on accurate epidemiologic and entomologic information about transmission. © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Authors & Co-Authors
Wilson, Mark Lee
Uganda, Kampala
Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Krogstad, Donald J.
Uganda, Kampala
Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Arinaitwe, Emmanuel S.
Uganda, Kampala
Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Arev́alo-Herrera, Myriam
Uganda, Kampala
Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Chery, Laura
Uganda, Kampala
Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Ferreira, Marcelo Urbano
Uganda, Kampala
Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Ndiaye, Daouda F.
Uganda, Kampala
Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Mathanga, Don Pascal
Uganda, Kampala
Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Eapen, Alex
Uganda, Kampala
Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Statistics
Citations: 84
Authors: 9
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.4269/ajtmh.14-0834
ISSN:
14761645
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Infectious Diseases
Study Design
Randomised Control Trial
Study Locations
Malawi
Senegal
Uganda