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2 Klinkenberg, Eveline; Amerasinghe, Felix P. 2006. Risk assessment: malaria in urban and peri-urban agriculture. In Boischio, A. Clegg, A.; Mwagore, D. (Eds.). Health Risks and Benefits of Urban and Peri-urban Aagriculture and Livestock (UA) in Sub-Saharan Africa Workshop, June 2003: resource papers and workshop proceedings. Resource paper 3. Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research Centre (IDRC). pp.35-46. (Urban Poverty and Environment Series Report 1)
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The Pakistani Punjab experienced several devastating malaria epidemics during the twentieth century. Since the 1980s, however, malaria has been at a low ebb, while in other areas of Pakistan and neighbouring India malaria is on the increase. This raises the question of whether transmission in the Pakistani Punjab may have been in uenced by a change in vector species abundance or composition, possibly induced by environmental changes. To investigate this question, routinely-collected government entomological data for the period 1970 to 1999 for the district of Bahawalnagar, in the Indus Basin irrigation system in the southern Punjab, was analysed. Our ndings suggest that Anopheles stephensi has increased in prevalence and became more common than A. culicifacies during the 1980s. This shift in species dominance may be due to the large-scale ecological changes that have taken place in the Punjab, where irrigation-induced waterlogging of soil with related salinization has created an environment favourable for the more salt-tolerant A. stephensi. Some biotypes of A. stephensi are suspected of being less ef cient vectors and, therefore, the shift in species dominance might have played a role in the reduced transmission in the Punjab, although further research is needed to investigate the effect of other transmission-in uencing factors.
5 Klinkenberg, Eveline; Boelee, Eline. (Eds.) 2002. Research priorities on malaria and agriculture in West and Central Africa (WCA) Paper presented at Workshop of the SIMA WCA Stakeholder Consultation, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria, 18-20 March 2002. 80p. (SIMA document no.1)
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7 Donnelly, M. J.; McCall, P. J.; Lengeler, C.; Bates, I.; D’Alessandro, U.; Barnish, G.; Konradsen, Flemming; Klinkenberg, Eveline; Townson, H.; Trape, J. F.; Hastings, I. M.; Mutero, Clifford. 2005. Malaria and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria Journal, 4(12):1-5.
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9 Klinkenberg, Eveline; McCall, P. J.; Wilson, M. D.; Akoto, A. O.; Amerasinghe, Felix; Bates, I.; Verhoeff, F. H.; Barnish, G.; Donnelly, M. J. 2006. Urban malaria and anaemia in children: a cross-sectional survey in two cities of Ghana. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 11(5):578-588.
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The efficacy of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in prevention of malaria and anaemia has been shown in rural settings, but their impact in urban settings is unknown. We carried out an ITN intervention in two communities in urban Accra, Ghana, where local malaria transmission is known to occur. There was evidence for a mass or community effect, despite ITN use by fewer than 35% of households. Children living within 300 m of a household with an ITN had higher haemoglobin concentrations (0.5 g/dl higher, P = 0.011) and less anaemia (odds ratio 2.21, 95% CI 1.08–4.52, P = 0.031 at month 6), than children living more than 300 m away from a household with an ITN, although malaria parasitaemias were similar. With urban populations growing rapidly across Africa, this study shows that ITNs will be an effective tool to assist African countries to achieve their Millennium Development Goals in urban settings.
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