Mac W. Otten

TL;DR: Initial evidence indicated that the combination of mass distribution of LLIN to all children < 5 years or all households and nationwide distribution of ACT in the public sector was associated with substantial declines of in-patient malaria cases and deaths in Rwanda and Ethiopia.

TL;DR: Richard Cibulskis and colleagues present estimates of the worldwide incidence of malaria in 2009, together with a critique of different estimation methods, including those based on risk maps constructed from surveys of parasite prevalence, and thosebased on routine case reports compiled by health ministries.

TL;DR: Scaling-up effective malaria interventions reduced malaria-related burden at health facilities by over 75% within 5 years in Zanzibar, indicating that intensified malaria control can substantially contribute to reaching the Millennium Development Goal 4 target of reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.

TL;DR: Excluding four outlier countries, each US$1 per capita in malaria DAH was associated with a significant increase in ITN household coverage and ITN use in children under 5 coverage of 5.3 percentage points, respectively.

TL;DR: Data from a cluster survey conducted in each of the 53 Burkina Faso health districts immediately after 1999 the National Immunization Days was used to assess whether administrative estimates correlated with those obtained through survey and whether the former identified districts that achieved suboptimal coverage as measured by cluster survey.