In the training, emphasis was placed on the difference between a diagnosis by microscopy, which depends on identification of the malaria parasite, and a diagnosis according to the rapid diagnostic test, which relies on an antigen-antibody reaction.
The greatest quality coverage gaps were for iron folate supplementation and preventive treatment for malaria, both of which depend on reliable commodity supplies.
Changes in climate conditions, natural inhabitants and other human activities, which depend on the environment, alter the intensity of malaria transmission (21, 65).
Dr. Kent Campbell, a malaria expert for Unicef, said chloroquine was still effective against vivax malaria, which is less fatal than more predominant falciparum malaria, but persists in Ethiopia.
The first symptoms can resemble malaria, which is common.
Major donors have focused on malaria since the creation in 2001 of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has paid for 106 million nets.
Malaria experts hailed the program as one of the most important recent advances in fighting malaria, which kills one million people a year, 90percentt of them children.
Malaria infects as many as 300 million children and sometimes this develops into cerebral malaria, which can damage the brain and central nervous system.
Highlanders have no resistance to malaria, which is endemic in the lowlands.
Malaria, which is not contagious, is usually characterized by chills, fever and sweating.
