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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
immunology and microbiology
National malaria control and scaling up for impact: The Zambia experience through 2006
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 79, No. 1, Year 2008
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Description
With its 2006-2011 National Malaria Strategic Plan, Zambia committed to control malaria at a national scale. This scale-up for impact approach was facilitated by sound business planning and financing in 2006 of approximately US$35 million. Compared with surveys in 2001 and 2004, a 2006 national survey of 14,681 persons in 2,999 households at the end of the transmission season showed substantial coverage increases for preventive interventions. Ownership and use rates of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) among vulnerable groups doubled, with 44% of households owning ITNs and 23% of children less than five years of age and 24% of pregnant women using them. Roll Back Malaria Abuja targets for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) were exceeded, with 62% of pregnant women receiving at least two doses of IPTp. As of 2006, Zambia is demonstrating substantial progress toward the national targets (80% population coverage rates for the interventions) and aspires to show that malaria need not be its leading health problem, and that malaria control is a sound national investment. Copyright © 2008 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Authors & Co-Authors
Steketee, Richard W.
France, Ferney-voltaire
Path
Sipilanyambe, Naawa
Zambia, Lusaka
University of Zambia
Chimumbwa, John
United States, Research Triangle Park
Rti International
Banda, James J.
Switzerland, Geneva
Rbm Partnership Secretariat
Mohamed, Abdirahman
Zambia, Lusaka
Chainama Hospital College Grounds
Miller, John M.
Zambia, Lusaka
Chainama Hospital College Grounds
Basu, Suprotik
United States, Washington, D.c.
The World Bank Group
Miti, Simon K.
Zambia, Lusaka
Zambian Ministry of Health
Campbell, Carlos C.(Kent)
United States, Seattle
Path Seattle
Statistics
Citations: 75
Authors: 9
Affiliations: 8
Identifiers
Doi:
10.4269/ajtmh.2008.79.45
ISSN:
00029637
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Infectious Diseases
Maternal And Child Health
Sexual And Reproductive Health
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Study Locations
Zambia
Participants Gender
Female