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ADAPTIVE DESIGN OF URBAN MALARIA CONTROL PROGRAMS. Marcia Caldas de Castro 1 Deo Mtasiwa 2 Burton Singer 1 Marcel Tanner 3 Juerg Utzinger 1 Yoichi Yamagata 4. 1 Office of Population Research Princeton University. 2 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania City Council. 3 Swiss Tropical Institute.
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ADAPTIVE DESIGN OF URBAN MALARIA CONTROL PROGRAMS Marcia Caldas de Castro 1 Deo Mtasiwa 2 Burton Singer 1 Marcel Tanner 3 Juerg Utzinger 1 Yoichi Yamagata 4 1Office of Population Research Princeton University 2Dar es Salaam, Tanzania City Council 3Swiss Tropical Institute 4Japan International Cooperation Agency
CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL MALARIA CONTROL PROGRAMS • Environmental management is the central focus, with several interventions/surveillance methods acting simultaneously. • Tuning the package of interventions to minimize the number of malaria cases per year is an adaptive process involving ongoing performance evaluation of each of the tools and the outcome measure (interventions are adjusted over time in response to these evaluations).
3-5 years were required before a given package of interventions exhibited high level performance. • Diagnosis of malaria cases, anti-malarial drugs, bed-nets, and the use of chemical insecticides (following the discovery of DDT) were necessary but not sufficient (for success) components of the program. • Program staff contained people knowledgeable about entomology, hydrology, epidemiology/ecology, and clinical aspects of malaria. • The implementation strategy, including the mix of tools employed, was highly idiosyncratic to the particular locality.
A.Gambie and A.Funestus larval habitats • A.Gambie • Open and un-shaded natural or man-made pools of standing water, near rivers and tributaries • Open water tanks and nature wells loosely overgrown with grass • A. Funestus • Shaded banks of rivers and tributaries • Swamps and flooded areas with partial shade
Reduction of Average Monthly Malaria Rate and Total Malaria Cases after the Implementation of Malaria Control Program - (1930-1933)
Average Monthly Malaria Incidence Rate and Annual Malaria Cases at the Roan Antelope Mine between 1944 and 1949
Reduction of Malaria Incidence at Nkana-Kitwe Mine between 1935-1943
Reduction of Malaria Incidence at Nkana Mine between 1944-1950
Malaria, Rainfall, and Anopheles Statistics at the Roan Antelope Mine between 1944-1949
Dar es Salaam Area Study Africa
Urbanizationin Dar esSalaam Source: http://mshand.geog.gla.ac.uk/DAR/Tanzania.htm
- Land Use -Vegetable Production Source: http://www.cityfarmer.org/daressalaam.html
History of Malaria Control in Dar es Salaam1902 - 1961 • 1902-1912 – German Colonial GovernmentDrainage, soil modification, bednets • 1912-1918 – German ordinances for controlling breeding sites; proscribed urban agriculture (potatoes and other ridge-and-furrow type cultivation • 1918-1961 – British ProtectorateContinued drainage works, stronger legal measures • 1920 – Sanitation Branch established East Africa Malaria Unit established • 1951 – Tanganyika Malaria Service
History of Malaria Control in Dar es SalaamPost colonial period • 1961+ – Urban mosquito control integrated into general health services • 1971 – Integrated malaria control experimentDar es Salaam City Council & WHO East Africa Aedes Research Unit • 1980 – Reduction in size of central malaria control unit – Consequential to adverse economic conditions (1970s high inflation) • 1988-1996 – JICA – Malaria control initiativeJapan-Tanzania bilateral project
- Breeding Sites - Aerial Observation Misimbazi Creek
- Breeding Sites - Aerial Observation Regent State & Kijito-Nyama
Breeding SitesMalaria Risk Mapping Dar es Salaam, 1993
Interventions StrategyIndoor Residual House Spraying (IRHS) and Larvicide Kisarawe Selected schools Pagu Kajungeni
Effect of InterventionsBoth IRHS and larvicide X no intervention
Total Length of Drain Cleaned(cumulative - meters) Dar es Salaam Tanga
- Program Implementation -Based on successful programs in the past • Environmental management is the central focus, with several interventions/surveillance methods acting simultaneously. • Tuning the package of interventions to minimize the number of malaria cases per year is an adaptive process involving ongoing performance evaluation of each of the tools and the outcome measure (interventions are adjusted over time in response to these evaluations).
3-5 years were required before a given package of interventions exhibited high level performance. • Diagnosis of malaria cases, anti-malarial drugs, bed-nets, and the use of chemical insecticides (following the discovery of DDT) were necessary but not sufficient (for success) components of the program. • Program staff contained people knowledgeable about entomology, hydrology, epidemiology/ecology, and clinical aspects of malaria. • The implementation strategy, including the mix of tools employed, was highly idiosyncratic to the particular locality.