Defining malaria risks among forest workers in Aceh, Indonesia: a formative assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Following a dramatic decline of malaria cases in Aceh province, geographically-based reactive case detection (RACD) was recently evaluated as a tool to improve surveillance with the goal of malaria elimination. While RACD detected few cases in households surrounding index cases, engaging in forest work was identified as a risk factor for malaria and infections from Plasmodium knowlesi-a non-human primate malaria parasite-were more common than expected. This qualitative formative assessment was conducted to improve understanding of malaria risk from forest work and identify strategies for targeted surveillance among forest workers, including adapting reactive case detection.

Methods

Between June and August, 2016, five focus groups and 18 in-depth interviews with fo

SUBMITTER: Ekawati LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7708119 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature