So, my original plan to compare anti-malarial resistance markers between families/communities who used ITNs and IRS and those that did not had to be scrapped since there were too few malaria cases in Macha, Zambia, where I planned to do the study.

This is from the Director of the Malaria Institute at Macha:

“However, to give you an idea, I can tell you that  the inpatient case load for pediatric malaria in 2008 was the lowest in many years – with a total of only 25 discharged cases of confirmed malaria for April and May of 2008. That compares with 471 discharges for malaria in those same two months as recently as 2003.
The Epi studies being conducted in local village areas by the team under the leadership of Dr Bill Moss at JHSPH, are finding that the prevalence this year of asymptomatic carriers of P falc. is around 5% in the area around Macha.”

 

This is good for everyone! 

Here’s a link to my original proposal:

The Effect of Malaria Control Policies on the Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum Drug-Resistant Genotypes and Gametocyte Carriage Rates in Zambia

-tmt