Targeting of Malaria Prevention and Control Strategies: Recent Progress and New Approaches
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 200
Special Issue Editors
2. MMGH Consulting GmbH, 8049 Zurich, Switzerland
Interests: malaria epidemiology; intervention impact modelling; data analysis; infectious disease modelling
Interests: urban malaria epidemiology; software applications and machine learning tools for subnational tailoring of interventions; malaria modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The landscape of malaria epidemiology and control has undergone major changes and advancements in recent years. The spread of resistance against insecticides and antimalarials, as well as invasive vectors, among other challenges, has diminished the effectiveness of interventions and increased the heterogeneity of malaria risk in many places. Combined with insufficient funding, these factors necessitate more effective, locally driven malaria responses targeted to at-risk populations across different geographic levels.
In addition, possibilities for malaria prevention and control are expanding, including advanced properties like second-generation nets, varying malaria chemoprevention strategies that are being piloted or scaled up, and two new malaria vaccines. However, several questions remain. These include determining the optimal mix of interventions in a country, intervention targeting in urban areas, and combining different interventions or delivery mechanisms for specific target populations. Additionally, operational factors during implementation that influence intervention access and use, and thereby their effectiveness, remain crucial for the optimal allocation of resources.
Documenting innovative and impactful targeting approaches is essential to enhance malaria strategies in resource-constrained settings and to advance towards national and global malaria-elimination goals.
This Special Issue on “Targeting of Malaria Prevention and Control Strategies: Recent Progress and New Approaches” focuses on practical approaches and tools for informing the allocation of malaria interventions and risk stratification in urban and rural areas. It emphasises the importance of local capacity and long-term sustainability, leveraging local data from epidemiological and entomological studies to enhance the targeting of malaria prevention and control efforts. This Special Issue also welcomes advanced mathematical or spatial modelling methods for evaluating the targeting of interventions to specific geographies or high-risk populations.
Dr. Manuela Runge
Dr. Ifeoma D. Ozodiegwu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- malaria prevention
- intervention targeting
- subnational tailoring
- urban malaria
- surveillance platforms
- decision-making tools
- mathematical modelling
- geospatial modelling
- malaria risk populations
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