Willis Akhwale

TL;DR: In resource-limited settings, malaria control programmes should consider use of text messaging to improve health workers' case-management practices and correct artemether-lumefantrine management improved.

TL;DR: Re-analysis of existing data suggests that co-infection with P. falciparum and hookworm has an additive impact on hemoglobin, exacerbating anemia-related malarial disease burden and it is suggested that both school-age children and pregnant women would benefit from an integrated approach to malaria and helminth control.

TL;DR: Rapid scaling up of ITN coverage among Africa's poorest rural children can be achieved through mass distribution campaigns, and each complimentary approach should aim to make this intervention free to clients to ensure equitable access.

TL;DR: A combined approach of social marketing followed by mass free distribution of ITNs translated into child survival effects that are comparable with those seen in previous randomised controlled trials.

TL;DR: Why it took over 32 months from announcing a drug policy change to completing early implementation is examined, finding decisions to abandon failing monotherapy in favour of ACT for the treatment of malaria can be achieved relatively quickly.