The protective effectiveness of control interventions for malaria prevention: a systematic review of the literature.

ABSTRACT: Background: Thanks to a considerable increase in funding, malaria control interventions (MCI) whose efficacy had been demonstrated by controlled trials have been largely scaled up during the last decade. Nevertheless, it was not systematically investigated whether this efficacy had been preserved once deployed on the field. Therefore, we sought the literature to assess the disparities between efficacy and effectiveness and the effort to measure the protective effectiveness (PE) of MCI. Methods: The PubMed database was searched for references with keywords related to malaria, to control interventions for prevention and to study designs that allow for the measure of the PE against parasitemia or against clinical outcomes. Results: Our search retrieved 1423 references, an

SUBMITTER: Kesteman T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5721947 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature