Friday 19 May 2017

Malaria vaccines

Scientist are studying malaria vaccines to see weather the vaccines are effectively preventing malaria infection. To date there is no strong evidence that these vaccines are effective. Work continues of improving vaccines for malaria prevention

• Partnership for malaria control successful malaria control activities required co-ordinator.

National authorities specially the ministry of health.
International organization such as WHO and UNICEF.
Government and non-government agencies.
The private sector
The communities
• To enhance coordinate, various partnership have been formed the most prominent one being the role back malaria global partnership.

 Activities for Malaria Control

The main activities necessary for carrying out malaria control intervention are:
• Health education (also called information education communication IEC) where the communities are informed of what they can do to prevent and control malarias.
• Training and supervision of health workers to ensure that they carry out their task correctly.
• Provision of equipment and supplies (e.g microscope,  drugs, bed nets) to allow the health workers and the intervention.
• Barriers to malaria control: malaria control is made difficulty be several technical and administrative problems.
• Drug-resistant: parasite hinder case management by decreasing the efficiency of anti-malaria drugs and by requiring the use of alternate drugs that are often more costly and not easily available
• Insecticide resistance decreases the efficiency of interventions that rely on insecticide such as insecticides sprayings
• Inadequate health infrastructures in poor and  developing countries leading to inability to conduct the recommendation intervention.
• The people most exposed to malaria are often poor and lack of education. They often do not have the financial   means to purchase the necessary product such as drugs or bed nets.

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