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Who Interventions for Malaria?
Who Interventions for Malaria?
Maya Lin-Takahashi••7 min read
In most malaria-endemic countries, four interventions—case management (diagnosis and treatment), ITNs, IPTp
IPTp
Intermittent preventive therapy or intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) is a public health intervention aimed at treating and preventing malaria episodes in infants (IPTi), children (IPTc), schoolchildren (IPTsc) and pregnant women (IPTp).
, and IRS—make up the essential package of malaria interventions. Occasionally, other interventions are used: Larval control and other vector control interventions. Mass drug administration
Mass drug administration
Mass drug administration (MDA) is the administration of antimalarial treatment to every member of a defined population or every person living in a defined geographical area (except those for whom the medicine in contraindicated) at approximately the same time and often at repeated intervals.
The WHO recommends strategies on how to prevent malaria transmission by controlling the mosquito population and on how to diagnose and treat malaria infections. There are two main prevention methods: Protective bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticides prevent bites from malaria-infected mosquitoes and kill them.
Who is doing research on malaria?
NIAID is the lead agency in the U.S. federal government supporting malaria research and development. The Institute has a longstanding commitment to malaria research to support the goals of reducing morbidity and mortality from malaria and ultimately eradicating the disease.
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