He joined the WHO Global Malaria Programme in June 2012 to work on integrated community case management of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea.
Blanas DA, Ndiaye Y, MacFarlane M, Manga I, Siddiqui A, Velez O, Kanter AS, Nichols K, Hennig N. Health worker perceptions of integrating mobile phones into community case management of malaria in Saraya, Senegal.
Development of parasites' resistance to the known antimalarials remains a major challenge for the effective management of malaria.
Modelling is widely used to inform decisions about management of malaria and acute febrile illnesses.
Clinical management of malaria is a major health issue in sub-Saharan Africa.
CBVs have been studied recently in Ghana in the context of home based management of malaria (HMM) [38] [40].
The programmes were implemented between 2005 and 2007 as part of scaling up home management of malaria (HMM) strategy [7], supported in the Kenya National Malaria Strategy [8].
Home management of malaria (HMM), promoting presumptive treatment of febrile children in the community, is advocated to improve prompt appropriate treatment of malaria in Africa.
Results encouraged the idealisation of new strategies that could revolutionise clinical management of malaria, by effectively targeting at-risk patients in endemic areas.
These findings are in agreement with two studies in Ghana of seasonal IPT in addition to home management of malaria with long-acting drugs [33] and [34].
Here we report the impact of the comprehensive national roll-out of RDTs in Senegal, and its impact on management of malaria in that country.
