Meningitis may be encountered in cerebral malaria (malaria infecting the brain) or amoebic meningitis, meningitis due to infection with amoebae such as Naegleria fowleri, contracted from freshwater sources.
Table 3 shows that caretakers who knew that ALu (Dawa mseto) is the recommended drug for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria (malaria ya kawaida), were more likely to take their children to a government health facility compared to those who did not know (OR 2.55; 95% CI 1.71 3.81; adjusted OR 2.06; 95% CI 1.31 3.25).
A few respondents were specific in describing degedege/likonde as advanced or late-stage malaria, as in the following statement made by a key informant in Msakala: "Convulsion (degedege) is caused by mosquitoes; in other words, we can say it is matured (form of) malaria (malaria iliyokomaa)" (KII Teacher 1, Msakala).
Malaria Malaria is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the Central African Republic.
The training covered: signs of simple and severe malaria; malaria treatment and prevention; drug resistance; referral practices; storage and expiry of medicines; and communication skills.
26 In such areas of low transmission of malaria, malaria control programs may be more interested in ascertaining true absence of local transmission to support elimination strategies.
Sixty-two (42.2%) blood smears were done for those who reported fever to screen for malaria; malaria parasites were reported in 42 (67.7%) of those blood smears.
Despite primary health care strategies for the reduction of mortality and morbidity in children resulting from malaria, malaria induced anaemia still occur frequently.
Health condition specific keywords included HIV/AIDS ("hiv" or "aids"), malaria ("malaria"), tuberculosis ("tuberculosis" or "tb"), maternal and child health conditions ("vaccine", "immun", "diarrhea", "pneumonia", "maternal", "child", or "measles"), and non-communicable diseases ("smoking", "cardio", or "cancer").
At community level, the ZNMCP supports strategic community leader engagement through focused trainings on malaria, malaria interventions, and the importance of leveraging their leadership positions to control the disease.
Long-term effects are a concern if, without repeated exposure to malaria, malaria infections are simply postponed to later in childhood when the morbidity effects may be even more serious [ 58, 59].
