By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Zika & Mosquito Week -- Current study results on Mosquito-Borne Diseases - Malaria have been published. According to news reporting originating in London, United Kingdom, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “SMC has been introduced widely in the Sahel since its recommendation by WHO in 2012. This study, which provided evidence of feasibility that supported the recommendation, included school-age and pre-school children.”
The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, “School-age children were not included in the 2012 recommendation but bear an increasing proportion of cases. In 2006, consultations with health-staff were held to choose delivery methods. The preferred approach, door-to-door with the first daily-dose supervised by a community-health- worker (CHW), was piloted and subsequently evaluated on a large-scale in under-5’s in 2008 and then in under-10’s 2009-2010. Coverage was higher among school-age children (96%(95% CI 94%, 98%) received three treatments in 2010) than among under 5’s (90%(86%, 94%)). SMC was more equitable than LLINs (odds-ratio for increase in coverage for a one-level rise in socioeconomic-ranking (a 5-point scale), was 1.1 (0.95,1.2) in 2009, compared with OR 1.3 (1.2,1.5) for sleeping under an LLIN. Effective communication was important in achieving high levels of uptake. Continued training and supervision were needed to ensure CHWs adhered to treatment guidelines. SMC door-to-door can, if carefully supervised, achieve high equitable coverage and high-quality delivery.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “SMC programmes can be adapted to include school-age children, a neglected group that bears a substantial burden of malaria.”
For more information on this research see: Implementation, coverage and equity of large-scale door-to-door delivery of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) to children under 10 in Senegal. Scientific Reports , 2018;8():264-278. Scientific Reports can be contacted at: Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Building, 4 Crinan St, London N1 9XW, England. (Nature Publishing Group - http://www.nature.com/; Scientific Reports - http://www.nature.com/srep/)
Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting P. Milligan, London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, London, United Kingdom. Additional authors for this research include C. Pitt, Y. Dial, S.L. Faye, M. Cairns, E. Faye, M. Ndiaye, J.F. Gomis, B. Faye, J.L. Ndiaye, C. Sokhna, O. Gaye, B. Cisse and E.H. Ba.
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CITATION: (2018-05-01), Study Data from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Update Understanding of Malaria [Implementation, coverage and equity of large-scale door-to-door delivery of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) to children under 10 in Senegal], Zika & Mosquito Week, 134, ISSN: 0000-0000, BUTTER® ID: 015577498
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