Last Updated: 14/03/2024
Assessment tool for Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in children aged 3-59 months in Mali: Parasitic Clearance
Objectives
To measure the in vivo efficacy of SP+AQ during the SMC campaign after 5 years of large-scale implementation in the health district of Koutiala.
Parasitaemia was higher on days 21 and 28 than on days 0 to 7 in this study. Of all the thick positive drops, P. falciparum was present on 100% of the slides read, and the highest parasitaemia was 6753 at D28. All cases of parasitaemia were cases of reinfection. The prevalence of fever was high at D28 and we found no correlation between fever and the presence of parasites. Fever was not a sign linked to the presence of parasitemia in the health district of Koutiala. The fever was higher in rural areas than in urban areas. Less than 10% of the cases of parasitaemia and fever were observed during the whole period of the study.
* The text has been machine translated from French.
Jan 2018 — Jan 2019
$15,000
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