Monday, 5th of May 2008 |
CSU 19/2008: LIMITS AND INTENSITY OF FALCIPARUM /READER FEEDBACK
1) LIMITS AND INTENSITY OF FALCIPARUM TRANSMISSION
As more international funding goes into the fight against malaria, the time
is due, even overdue, for a review of its geographical extent.
In this timely article from PLOS/Medicine, Guerra and colleagues review
what is known on the geographical extent of falciparum malaria. They
conclude that "[f]or 1 billion people at risk of unstable malaria
transmission, elimination is epidemiologically feasible, and large areas of
Africa are more amenable to control than appreciated previously." This open
access article is also available to Web users at
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050038
2) READER COMMENT
From reader Jon Rohde comes the following note on child and maternal health
in South Africa.
"Amen to the low priority on family planning! Like HIV, it is anathema to
try to encourage it, though contraceptive prevalence overall is high, early
and frequent pregnancy is a real problem. The other point to make is
exclusive breast feeding at 7% is probably the lowest in Africa - Nestle
and the others have a total run of the health care system - indeed, they
are encouraged as govt is a major supplier of infant formula.
"The report does not mention the rising IMR and U5MR - AIDS, for sure, but
also diseases associated with bottle feeding."
Jon Rohde, MD
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Oranjezicht, 8001
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South Africa
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Good reading.
BD
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