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Background: Malaria can be prevented if LLITNs are used appropriately for under-five children. Unfortunately, studies show that there is an increased prevalence of malaria in under-five children despite the free mass distribution of LLITNs to their caregivers. Malaria if left untreated leads to...

Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality especially in children under 5 years and pregnant women in Zambia. Environmental factors and behavioral patterns of vectors and human populations combine to provide favorable conditions for malaria transmission. Focal-Indoor Residual Spraying...

Background:Severe anaemia due to infection with complicated falciparum malaria remains a significant cause of morbidity in children under the age of 5 years, especially in endemic areas. Severe malarial anaemia increases the risk cognitive impairment and functioning, retarded growth and death....

Zambia is one of the countries that have embarked on improved and accurate diagnosis of malaria in order to optimize the out come of malaria management. This has led to a change of policy, which emphasized the importance of accurate malaria diagnosis as one of the key interventions in malaria...

In malaria diagnosis, peripheral parasitaemia is used as an indicator of malaria severity. However, this does not quantify central sequestration, which is important in the pathogenesis of severe malaria. Intraleukocytic malaria pigment or haemozoin, recognizable within the cytoplasm of phagocytic...

Malaria in pregnancy is a major public health problem in Zambia and in many other developing countries. Adverse outcomes include low birth weight and fetal death as well as maternal mortality and morbidity. The Ministry of Health put in a policy in 2003 for routine prophylaxis against malaria in...

Malaria in pregnancy is a major public health problem in Zambia and in many other developing countries. Adverse outcomes include low birth weight and fetal death as well as maternal mortality and morbidity. The Ministry of Health put in a policy in 2003 for routine prophylaxis against malaria in...

Introduction: Malaria is still a major public health problem in many tropical and subtropical countries. Therefore effective integrated malaria control strategies are a requirement. However, parasite antigen diversity might be a hurdle in the efficacy of some malaria control strategies like the...

Malaria is highly prevalent in sub-Sahara Africa and is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality accounting for approximately one million deaths per annum. Disease severity and parasitaemia have been linked to cytokine levels, but their relationship requires further elucidation. Better...

Rapid detection of the malaria parasite and early treatment of infection still remain the most important goals of disease management. This study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) Paracheck Malaria Pfm a Zambian circumstance and its objective...