Difficulties in organizing first indoor spray programme against malaria in Angola under the President’s Malaria Initiative | Zendy

Martinho Somandjinga | Zendy; Manuel Lluberas | Zendy; William R. Jobin | Zendy

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Difficulties in organizing first indoor spray programme against malaria in Angola under the President’s Malaria Initiative

Author(s) -

Martinho Somandjinga,

Manuel Lluberas,

William R. Jobin

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

bulletin of the world health organization

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459

H-Index - 168

eISSN - 1564-0604

pISSN - 0042-9686

DOI - 10.2471/blt.08.052514

Subject(s) - malaria , environmental health , government (linguistics) , medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , public health , geography , nursing , immunology , computer science , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy

Successful attempts to control malaria require understanding of its complex transmission patterns. Unfortunately malaria transmission in Africa is often assessed using routine administrative reports from local health units, which are plagued by sporadic reporting failures. In addition, the lack of microscopic analyses of blood slides in these units introduces the effects of many confounding diseases.

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