title: Scaling up malaria control in Zambia: progress and impact 2005-2008.
abstract: Zambia national survey, administrative, health facility, and special study data were used to assess progress and impact in national malaria control between 2000 and 2008. Zambia malaria financial support expanded from US$9 million in 2003 to US$ approximately 40 million in 2008. High malaria prevention coverage was achieved and extended to poor and rural areas. Increasing coverage was consistent in time and location with reductions in child (age 6-59 months) parasitemia and severe anemia (53% and 68% reductions, respectively, from 2006 to 2008) and with lower post-neonatal infant and 1-4 years of age child mortality (38% and 36% reductions between 2001/2 and 2007 survey estimates). Zambia has dramatically reduced malaria transmission, disease, and child mortality burden through rapid national scale-up of effective interventions. Sustained progress toward malaria elimination will require maintaining high prevention coverage and further reducing transmission by actively searching for and treating infected people who harbor malaria parasites.
authors.affiliation: National Malaria Control Center, Ministry of Health, Ndeke House, Lusaka, Zambia. elizabethchizema@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chizema-Kawesha
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Steketee
authors.forename: Victor M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Mukonka
authors.forename: Chilandu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mukuka
authors.forename: Abdirahman D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Mohamed
authors.forename: Simon K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Miti
authors.forename: Carlos C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality / Q000639:trends; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011203:Poverty; D019035:Rural Health Services; D015024:Zambia / Q000453:epidemiology
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