Introduction: In the past 10 years, a declining trend was seen in the annual parasite incidence (API) of malaria in the Car Nicobar Island. For the past few years, the API in the island has been below one. Car Nicobar Island is struggling with malaria cases reported to have been brought from other, malaria-endemic islands. Methods: The movements of people...

A study on Knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards malaria has been conducted in tribal population of Baiga chak area in Dindori district (M.P.). A total of 239 respondent including 102 females were interviewed, using structured and open ended questionnaire. 59% respondents were found to be illiterate. Only 37.6% of respondents knew that malaria is transmitted by mosquito. Majority of th...

BACKGROUND Malaria accounts for 1 million deaths among children under five annually. It has been shown that improving home treatment and preventing delays in seeking treatment, by teaching women to respond promptly when their children have fever, can decrease malaria related complications and mortality. This study looks at the impact of health education on knowledge of malaria: its recognition,...

Introduction: Malaria is a major global public health problem and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in many countries. Malaria elimination is the common goal of World Health Organization and the health system in Iran. Following a decline in malaria cases in recent years, the malaria elimination program, technically supported by the WHO, has initiated since 2009 in Iran. In order to suc...

Malariometric surveys generate data on malaria epidemiology and dynamics of transmission necessary for planning and monitoring of control activities. This study determined the prevalence of malaria and the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) towards malaria infection in Ibeshe, a coastal community. The study took place during the dry season in 10 villages of Ibeshe. All the participants wer...

Malaria during pregnancy and childhood is the major public health problem about half of population at risk developing malaria in world. During pregnancy, it causes severe anemia, low birth weight babies, abortion many other complications. Knowledge plays main role to prevent this disease therefore study seeking behavior pregnant women explored determine frequency suspected cases reasons for non...

b ackground: malaria is still one of the most important infectious diseases in the world. the disease also is a public health problem in south and southeast of iran. this study programmed to show the correlation between regular malaria microscopy training and refresher training courses and control of malaria in iran. m ethods: three types of training courses were conducted in this programme inc...

BACKGROUND A clear understanding of the social and behavioral risk factors, and knowledge gaps, related to exposure to malaria are essential when developing guidelines and recommendations for more effective disease prevention in many malaria endemic areas of the world including Bangladesh and elsewhere in the South East Asia. To-date, the level of knowledge that human populations, residing in m...