Last Updated: 11/12/2017
Reduction in symptomatic malaria prevalence through proactive community treatment in rural Senegal
Objectives
The objective of this project is to show if active fever surveillance decreases weekly malaria incidence and the number and percentage of severe malaria cases seen at the health post.
Quasi‐experimental study design. Community-based proactive malaria case detection model.
Village malaria volunteers (DSDOMs), who are already trained to test febrile patients with RDTs and treat positives with ACTs, will conduct weekly house-to-house visits to identify fever cases, and offer testing and treatment, during the four months of malaria transmission season in 15 villages in the health district of Saraya. Fifteen villages that have DSDOMs will serve as the comparison. In those villages, in addition to home-based care, a house-to-house sweep will be conducted at the beginning and the end of the transmission season for comparison
Jul 2013 — Dec 2013
$8,000
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