Title |
Active case detection for malaria elimination: a survey among Asia Pacific countries
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Published in |
Malaria Journal, October 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-12-358 |
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Authors |
Cara Smith Gueye, Kelly C Sanders, Gawrie NL Galappaththy, Christina Rundi, Tashi Tobgay, Siv Sovannaroth, Qi Gao, Asik Surya, Garib D Thakur, Mario Baquilod, Won-ja Lee, Alby Bobogare, Sarath L Deniyage, Wichai Satimai, George Taleo, Nguyen M Hung, Chris Cotter, Michelle S Hsiang, Lasse S Vestergaard, Roly D Gosling |
Abstract |
Moving from malaria control to elimination requires national malaria control programmes to implement strategies to detect both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in the community. In order to do this, malaria elimination programmes follow up malaria cases reported by health facilities to carry out case investigations that will determine the origin of the infection, whether it has been imported or is due to local malaria transmission. If necessary, the malaria programme will also carry out active surveillance to find additional malaria cases in the locality to prevent further transmission. To understand current practices and share information on malaria elimination strategies, a survey specifically addressing country policies on case investigation and reactive case detection was carried out among fourteen countries of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN). |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Singapore | 1 | 20% |
United States | 1 | 20% |
Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Vietnam | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Thailand | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Philippines | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 131 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 32 | 24% |
Student > Master | 29 | 21% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 10% |
Other | 9 | 7% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 4% |
Other | 20 | 15% |
Unknown | 26 | 19% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 42 | 31% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 16% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 10% |
Social Sciences | 6 | 4% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 4% |
Other | 16 | 12% |
Unknown | 32 | 24% |