ERASE - Impact of COVID-19 on Malaria Control

Launched by DOCTORS WITH AFRICA - CUAMM · Apr 25, 2022

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ClinConnect Summary

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Malaria epidemiology and global trends Globally, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases in 2020 in 85 malaria endemic countries, increasing from 227 million in 2019, with most of this increase coming from countries in the WHO African Region.

Although it still represents a major threat for public health, over the last twenty years tremendous progress has been made on malaria control, averting an estimate of 1.5 billion cases and saving 7.6 million lives. Malaria mortality fell by 60% over the period from 2000 to 2019, especially in Africa, where political co...

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Eligibility criteria

• • Inclusion Criteria: All pregnant women at any gestational age presenting to the Aber Hospitals during the study period both at the emergency department or the Ante-Natal Care (ANC) clinic will be eligible to participate in this study.
• Inclusion criteria will be:
• • •. Pregnancy confirmed by positive urine pregnancy test or intrauterine pregnancy by ultrasound;
• • Provision of informed consent;
• • Agreement to come to the study clinic for any febrile episode or other illness;
• • Plan to deliver in the hospital
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • • Ongoing labor or delivery
• • Non-pregnant subpopulation
• Inclusion criteria for this population will be:
• • microscopically confirmed diagnose of malaria ;
• • provision of informed consent;
• • agreement to avoid antimalarial medications given outside the study protocol;
• • agreement to be re-assessed for parasitemia at day 3 Exclusion Criteria
• • too ill to participate in the study according to clinician judgment