Malaria: The Continuous Epidemic Malaria Research Paper

, published as a Bulletin of the World Health Organization. This article reportedly provides a general overview of the current status of prevention treatment in sub-Saharan Africa and assesses whether intermittent preventive treatment in infants would be an effective form of malaria control. Part of the goal of this project was to provide information to decision makers regarding an effective tool to remediate the epidemic conditions of malaria in the region. In order to locate this article, I used the search terms malaria and Africa and filtered for full text peer reviewed articles published between 2005 and 2011.

Other headings that may be relevant to my research include "The transit phase of migration: circulation of malaria and its multidrug-resistant forms in Africa" by Caroline Lynch and Cally Roper, 2011 and "Randomized controlled trials of malaria intervention trials in Africa, 1948 to 2007: a descriptive analysis" by Vittoria Lutje, Annette Gerritsen and Nandi Siegfried, 2011. The article by Lynch and Roper was selected as it speaks to the issue of how the disease is transported via human migration and ways to prevent and treat the spread via these modalities.Moreover, the article addresses the elimination of antimalarial drug resistance and its role in human migration in Africa. The article by Vittoria and his colleagues was chosen because it provides a historical and descriptive perspective of the achievements made in addressing the disease to date as well as results of recent studies designed to inform regarding potential effective intervention techniques.

References

Carneiro, I., Smith, L., Ross, A., et al. (2010). Intermittent preventative treatment for malaria in infants: A decision-support tool for sub-Saharan Africa. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88(11), 807-814.

Lutje, V., Gerritsen, A., & Siegfried, N. (2011). Randomized controlled trials of malaria

Intervention trials in Africa, 1948 to 2007: a descriptive analysis. Malaria Journal, 10(1), 61-68.….....