Published in BMC Public Health on September 16, 2008
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A research agenda for malaria eradication: health systems and operational research. PLoS Med (2011) 2.53
Barriers to prompt and effective malaria treatment among the poorest population in Kenya. Malar J (2010) 2.04
Improvements in access to malaria treatment in Tanzania following community, retail sector and health facility interventions -- a user perspective. Malar J (2010) 2.00
Scale-up of malaria rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapy: challenges and perspectives in sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS Med (2014) 1.61
Malaria risk and access to prevention and treatment in the paddies of the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Malar J (2008) 1.43
Socio-cultural factors explaining timely and appropriate use of health facilities for degedege in south-eastern Tanzania. Malar J (2009) 1.36
Malaria treatment in the retail sector: knowledge and practices of drug sellers in rural Tanzania. BMC Public Health (2008) 1.31
From fever to anti-malarial: the treatment-seeking process in rural Senegal. Malar J (2010) 1.31
Improving access to health care for malaria in Africa: a review of literature on what attracts patients. Malar J (2012) 1.22
The quest for universal access to effective malaria treatment: how can the AMFm contribute? Malar J (2010) 1.17
Accessibility, availability and affordability of anti-malarials in a rural district in Kenya after implementation of a national subsidy scheme. Malar J (2011) 1.15
Methods for evaluating delivery systems for scaling-up malaria control intervention. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.13
Estimating the coverage of mental health programmes: a systematic review. Int J Epidemiol (2014) 1.10
Routine delivery of artemisinin-based combination treatment at fixed health facilities reduces malaria prevalence in Tanzania: an observational study. Malar J (2012) 1.10
Who gets prompt access to artemisinin-based combination therapy? A prospective community-based study in children from rural Kilosa, Tanzania. PLoS One (2010) 1.09
Community response to artemisinin-based combination therapy for childhood malaria: a case study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Malar J (2010) 1.06
Treatment with coartem (artemether-lumefantrine) in Papua New Guinea. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2010) 0.98
"We have become doctors for ourselves": motives for malaria self-care among adults in southeastern Tanzania. Malar J (2014) 0.95
Caregivers' treatment-seeking behaviour for children under age five in malaria-endemic areas of rural Myanmar: a cross-sectional study. Malar J (2015) 0.94
Malaria case management in Papua New Guinea following the introduction of a revised treatment protocol. Malar J (2013) 0.93
Baseline results of the first malaria indicator survey in Iran at the health facility level. Malar J (2011) 0.92
The potential impact of improving appropriate treatment for fever on malaria and non-malarial febrile illness management in under-5s: a decision-tree modelling approach. PLoS One (2013) 0.90
Acceptability--a neglected dimension of access to health care: findings from a study on childhood convulsions in rural Tanzania. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 0.84
Do frontline health care providers know enough about artemisinin-based combination therapy to rationally treat malaria? A cross-sectional survey in Gezira State, Sudan. Malar J (2015) 0.82
"In a situation of rescuing life": meanings given to diabetes symptoms and care-seeking practices among adults in Southeastern Tanzania: a qualitative inquiry. BMC Public Health (2015) 0.80
The Impact of a Community Awareness Strategy on Caregiver Treatment Seeking Behaviour and Use of Artemether-Lumefantrine for Febrile Children in Rural Kenya. PLoS One (2015) 0.78
Factors Affecting Access to Healthcare: An Observational Study of Children under 5 Years of Age Presenting to a Rural Gambian Primary Healthcare Centre. PLoS One (2016) 0.78
Linking household and facility data for better coverage measures in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health care: systematic review. J Glob Health (2016) 0.78
Does the Use of Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine in Treating Patients with Uncomplicated falciparum Malaria Reduce the Risk for Recurrent New falciparum Infection More Than Artemether-Lumefantrine? Malar Res Treat (2014) 0.77
Factors Associated with Testing and Prompt Use of Recommended Antimalarials following Malaria Diagnosis: A Secondary Analysis of 2011-12 Tanzania HIV and Malaria Indicator Survey Data. PLoS One (2015) 0.77
Expanding access to parasite-based malaria diagnosis through retail drug shops in Tanzania: evidence from a randomized trial and implications for treatment. Malar J (2017) 0.75
Scaling up integrated prevention campaigns for global health: costs and cost-effectiveness in 70 countries. BMJ Open (2014) 0.75
Use of Antimalarial in the Management of Fever during a Community Survey in the Kintampo Districts of Ghana. PLoS One (2015) 0.75
Overcoming health-systems constraints to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Lancet (2004) 15.43
How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings? Lancet (2005) 12.16
Inequities among the very poor: health care for children in rural southern Tanzania. Lancet (2003) 8.79
A steep decline of malaria morbidity and mortality trends in Eritrea between 2000 and 2004: the effect of combination of control methods. Malar J (2006) 6.32
Improving malaria home treatment by training drug retailers in rural Kenya. Trop Med Int Health (2004) 3.65
Diagnostic accuracy and case management of clinical malaria in the primary health services of a rural area in south-eastern Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health (2001) 3.62
Self-treatment for malaria: the evidence and methodological issues. Health Policy Plan (2002) 3.60
Care-seeking patterns for fatal malaria in Tanzania. Malar J (2004) 3.41
The use of formal and informal curative services in the management of paediatric fevers in four districts in Kenya. Trop Med Int Health (2003) 3.19
An estimation of the entomological inoculation rate for Ifakara: a semi-urban area in a region of intense malaria transmission in Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health (2003) 2.94
Access to health care in contexts of livelihood insecurity: a framework for analysis and action. PLoS Med (2007) 2.89
Cost-sharing strategies combining targeted public subsidies with private-sector delivery achieve high bednet coverage and reduced malaria transmission in Kilombero Valley, southern Tanzania. BMC Infect Dis (2007) 2.75
KINET: a social marketing programme of treated nets and net treatment for malaria control in Tanzania, with evaluation of child health and long-term survival. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (1999) 2.73
Clinical features and pathogenesis of severe malaria. Trends Parasitol (2004) 2.73
Understanding and improving access to prompt and effective malaria treatment and care in rural Tanzania: the ACCESS Programme. Malar J (2007) 2.25
Fever treatment and household wealth: the challenge posed for rolling out combination therapy for malaria. Trop Med Int Health (2006) 2.18
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Introducing insecticide-treated nets in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania: the relevance of local knowledge and practice for an information, education and communication (IEC) campaign. Trop Med Int Health (2001) 2.10
Intra-household relations and treatment decision-making for childhood illness: a Kenyan case study. J Biosoc Sci (2002) 2.07
Malaria in the United Republic of Tanzania: cultural considerations and health-seeking behaviour. Bull World Health Organ (2000) 1.88
Treatment practices for degedege, a locally recognized febrile illness, and implications for strategies to decrease mortality from severe malaria in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health (1996) 1.86
Local terminology for febrile illnesses in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania and its impact on the design of a community-based malaria control programme. Soc Sci Med (1996) 1.81
Medical syncretism with reference to malaria in a Tanzanian community. Soc Sci Med (2002) 1.77
Decreased availability of antimalarials in the private sector following the policy change from chloroquine to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Malar J (2006) 1.72
Assessing health worker performance in malaria case management of underfives at health facilities in a rural Tanzanian district. Trop Med Int Health (2007) 1.64
Community effectiveness of malaria treatment in Uganda--a long way to Abuja targets. Ann Trop Paediatr (2005) 1.62
Malaria risk and access to prevention and treatment in the paddies of the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Malar J (2008) 1.43
Global malaria control in the 21st century: a historic but fleeting opportunity. JAMA (2007) 1.31
Efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Tanzania after two years as first-line drug for uncomplicated malaria: assessment protocol and implication for treatment policy strategies. Malar J (2005) 1.26
Strengthening health systems to meet MDGs. Health Policy Plan (2006) 1.14
Treatment uptake by individuals infected with Plasmodium falciparum in rural Gambia, West Africa. Bull World Health Organ (2002) 1.11
Inequities among the very poor: health care for children in rural southern Tanzania. Lancet (2003) 8.79
Preventing childhood malaria in Africa by protecting adults from mosquitoes with insecticide-treated nets. PLoS Med (2007) 6.80
Beyond malaria--causes of fever in outpatient Tanzanian children. N Engl J Med (2014) 6.64
Effectiveness and cost of facility-based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Tanzania. Lancet (2004) 5.91
Historical review of malarial control in southern African with emphasis on the use of indoor residual house-spraying. Trop Med Int Health (2004) 5.38
Indoor residual spraying for preventing malaria. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2010) 5.28
Time to move from presumptive malaria treatment to laboratory-confirmed diagnosis and treatment in African children with fever. PLoS Med (2009) 4.49
Safety and immunogenicity of RTS,S/AS02D malaria vaccine in infants. N Engl J Med (2008) 4.35
Child survival gains in Tanzania: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys. Lancet (2008) 4.03
Factors affecting home delivery in rural Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health (2007) 3.91
Intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment for Tanzanian infants: follow-up to age 2 years of a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet (2005) 3.79
Withholding antimalarials in febrile children who have a negative result for a rapid diagnostic test. Clin Infect Dis (2010) 3.51
Reduction of anti-malarial consumption after rapid diagnostic tests implementation in Dar es Salaam: a before-after and cluster randomized controlled study. Malar J (2011) 3.33
Evaluation of Olyset insecticide-treated nets distributed seven years previously in Tanzania. Malar J (2004) 3.21
Targeted subsidy for malaria control with treated nets using a discount voucher system in Tanzania. Health Policy Plan (2003) 2.97
The use of antenatal and postnatal care: perspectives and experiences of women and health care providers in rural southern Tanzania. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2009) 2.95
Costs and consequences of large-scale vector control for malaria. Malar J (2008) 2.93
Reduction in the proportion of fevers associated with Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in Africa: a systematic review. Malar J (2010) 2.93
Access to health care in contexts of livelihood insecurity: a framework for analysis and action. PLoS Med (2007) 2.89
Microbial larvicide application by a large-scale, community-based program reduces malaria infection prevalence in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. PLoS One (2009) 2.85
Health and survival of young children in southern Tanzania. BMC Public Health (2008) 2.83
A tool box for operational mosquito larval control: preliminary results and early lessons from the Urban Malaria Control Programme in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Malar J (2008) 2.70
Impact of promoting longer-lasting insecticide treatment of bed nets upon malaria transmission in a rural Tanzanian setting with pre-existing high coverage of untreated nets. Malar J (2010) 2.63
Quantifying behavioural interactions between humans and mosquitoes: evaluating the protective efficacy of insecticidal nets against malaria transmission in rural Tanzania. BMC Infect Dis (2006) 2.60
Interdependence of domestic malaria prevention measures and mosquito-human interactions in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Malar J (2007) 2.57
Malaria and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. Malar J (2005) 2.56
The use of personal digital assistants for data entry at the point of collection in a large household survey in southern Tanzania. Emerg Themes Epidemiol (2007) 2.53
Creating an "enabling environment" for taking insecticide treated nets to national scale: the Tanzanian experience. Malar J (2005) 2.51
Mosquito nets and the poor: can social marketing redress inequities in access? Trop Med Int Health (2004) 2.44
Development and field evaluation of a synthetic mosquito lure that is more attractive than humans. PLoS One (2010) 2.42
Habitat characterization and spatial distribution of Anopheles sp. mosquito larvae in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) during an extended dry period. Malar J (2005) 2.39
Re-treatment of mosquito nets with insecticide. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2002) 2.35
Assessing the prevalence of hypertension in populations: are we doing it right? J Hypertens (2003) 2.35
Scaling-up and sustaining insecticide-treated net coverage. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 2.27
Cost-effectiveness of social marketing of insecticide-treated nets for malaria control in the United Republic of Tanzania. Bull World Health Organ (2003) 2.26
Understanding and improving access to prompt and effective malaria treatment and care in rural Tanzania: the ACCESS Programme. Malar J (2007) 2.25
Distribution of blood pressure, body mass index and smoking habits in the urban population of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and associations with socioeconomic status. Int J Epidemiol (2002) 2.24
Design, implementation and evaluation of a national campaign to distribute nine million free LLINs to children under five years of age in Tanzania. Malar J (2011) 2.18
Randomized controlled safety and efficacy trial of 2 vitamin A supplementation schedules in Tanzanian infants. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 2.11
Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) in sub-Saharan Africa. Malar J (2005) 2.09
The changing epidemiology of malaria in Ifakara Town, southern Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health (2004) 2.02
Low quality of routine microscopy for malaria at different levels of the health system in Dar es Salaam. Malar J (2011) 2.01
Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) II: epidemiology of urban malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). Malar J (2006) 2.01
Improvements in access to malaria treatment in Tanzania following community, retail sector and health facility interventions -- a user perspective. Malar J (2010) 2.00
Socially marketed insecticide-treated nets improve malaria and anaemia in pregnancy in southern Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health (2002) 2.00
A framework for mandatory impact evaluation to ensure well informed public policy decisions. Lancet (2010) 1.97
Age interactions in the development of naturally acquired immunity to Plasmodium falciparum and its clinical presentation. PLoS Med (2007) 1.93
Establishment of a large semi-field system for experimental study of African malaria vector ecology and control in Tanzania. Malar J (2008) 1.93
Timing of antenatal care for adolescent and adult pregnant women in south-eastern Tanzania. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2012) 1.89
Vouchers for scaling up insecticide-treated nets in Tanzania: methods for monitoring and evaluation of a national health system intervention. BMC Public Health (2008) 1.86
Incentivising safe sex: a randomised trial of conditional cash transfers for HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention in rural Tanzania. BMJ Open (2012) 1.80
Insecticide-treated nets for malaria control: real gains. Bull World Health Organ (2004) 1.80
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of oral artemether for the prevention of patent Schistosoma haematobium infections. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2003) 1.79
Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) I: epidemiology of urban malaria in Ouagadougou. Malar J (2005) 1.77
Participatory mapping of target areas to enable operational larval source management to suppress malaria vector mosquitoes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Int J Health Geogr (2007) 1.77
Design, implementation and evaluation of a national campaign to deliver 18 million free long-lasting insecticidal nets to uncovered sleeping spaces in Tanzania. Malar J (2013) 1.74
Therapeutic efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and prevalence of resistance markers in Tanzania prior to revision of malaria treatment policy: Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthase mutations in monitoring in vivo resistance. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2004) 1.72
Decreased availability of antimalarials in the private sector following the policy change from chloroquine to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Malar J (2006) 1.72
Assessment of a national voucher scheme to deliver insecticide-treated mosquito nets to pregnant women. CMAJ (2010) 1.71