Complexities in Defining the Unit of Intervention for Reactive Community-Based Malaria Treatment in the Gambia.

ABSTRACT: With significant declines in malaria, infections are increasingly clustered in households, or groups of households where malaria transmission is higher than in surrounding household/villages. To decrease transmission in such cases, reactive interventions target household members of clinical malaria cases, with the intervention unit (e.g., the "household/s") derived from an epidemiological and operational perspective. A lack of unanimity regarding the spatial range of the intervention unit calls for greater importance to be placed on social context in conceptualizing the appropriate unit. A novel malaria elimination strategy based on reactive treatment was recently evaluated by a cluster randomized trial in a low transmission setting in The Gambia. Transdisciplinary research was used to ass

SUBMITTER: Jaiteh F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7952428 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature