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Will the Global Fund help roll back malaria in Africa?A Teklehaimanot
Center for Global Health and Economic Development, Columbia University, New York, NY 10002, USA
Lancet 360:888-9. 2002- Weather-based prediction of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in epidemic-prone regions of Ethiopia II. Weather-based prediction systems perform comparably to early detection systems in identifying times for interventionsHailay D Teklehaimanot
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Malar J 3:44. 2004..Early warning methods that provide earlier alerts (usually by the use of weather variables) may permit control measures to interrupt transmission earlier in the epidemic, perhaps at the expense of some level of accuracy... - Weather-based prediction of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in epidemic-prone regions of Ethiopia I. Patterns of lagged weather effects reflect biological mechanismsHailay D Teklehaimanot
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Malar J 3:41. 2004..The impact of temperature on the duration of a mosquito's life cycle and the sporogonic phase of the parasite could explain the inconsistent findings... - Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) in sub-Saharan AfricaShr Jie Wang
Swiss Tropical Institute, CH 4002 Basel, Switzerland
Malar J 4:40. 2005..The rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) methodology aims to provide a cost-effective tool to conduct rapid assessments of the malaria situation in urban sub-Saharan Africa and to improve the understanding of urban malaria epidemiology... - Malaria and povertyAwash Teklehaimanot
Malaria Program, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, 2910 Broadway, Hogan Hall, Rm 110, New York, NY 10027, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1136:32-7. 2008..If malaria is to be controlled or eventually eliminated, the social and economic conditions that fuel malaria transmission need to be addressed. At the same time, malaria control should be seen as a poverty reduction strategy... - Malaria control needs mass distribution of insecticidal bednetsAwash Teklehaimanot
Center for Global Health and Economic Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA
Lancet 369:2143-6. 2007 - Scaling up malaria control in Africa: an economic and epidemiological assessmentAwash Teklehaimanot
The Earth Institute at Columbia University, 2910 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:138-44. 2007..We conclude that the cost of comprehensive malaria control for Africa is US $3.0 billion per year on average, or around US $4.02 per African at risk... - The African Millennium VillagesPedro Sanchez
The Earth Institute, Columbia University, 405 Low Library, 535 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:16775-80. 2007..In early results, the research villages in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi have reduced malaria prevalence, met caloric requirements, generated crop surpluses, enabled school feeding programs, and provided cash earnings for farm families... - Emerging consensus in HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and access to essential medicinesJosh Ruxin
Center for Global Health and Economic Development, Mailman School of Public Health and The Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York 10027, USA
Lancet 365:618-21. 2005 - Malaria in São Tomé and principe: on the brink of elimination after three years of effective antimalarial measuresHailay Desta Teklehaimanot
Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:133-40. 2009..We report evidence of the program's impact and the feasibility of and potential strategies for eliminating malaria from São Tomé e Príncipe... - Estimated global resources needed to attain international malaria control goalsAnthony Kiszewski
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Bull World Health Organ 85:623-30. 2007.... - Scaling-up coverage with insecticide-treated nets against malaria in Africa: who should pay?Christopher Curtis
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet Infect Dis 3:304-7. 2003..This expenditure is affordable by the world community as a whole, but not by its poorest members. Recently, funding of this order of magnitude has been committed by donor agencies for malaria control... - A review of the clinical and epidemiologic burdens of epidemic malariaAnthony E Kiszewski
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 71:128-35. 2004..Such considerations are particularly critical during a time when malaria epidemics are occurring more frequently in Africa and throughout the world... - Alert threshold algorithms and malaria epidemic detectionHailay Desta Teklehaimanot
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:1220-6. 2004..The comparative method developed here may be useful for testing other proposed alert thresholds and for application in other populations... - Estimating the needs for artesunate-based combination therapy for malaria case-management in AfricaRobert W Snow
KEMRI Wellcome Trust Collaborative Program, PO Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
Trends Parasitol 19:363-9. 2003..Better diagnostics would also be an important consideration for a new ACT policy in Africa... - Forecasting malaria incidence from historical morbidity patterns in epidemic-prone areas of Ethiopia: a simple seasonal adjustment method performs bestTarekegn A Abeku
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Trop Med Int Health 7:851-7. 2002..The study shows the limitations of forecasting incidence from historical morbidity patterns alone, and indicates the need for improved epidemic early warning by incorporating external predictors such as meteorological factors...