Health Impacts of the Zambian Malaria Initiative

摘要

Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This program -- which involved mass distribution of insecticidetreated mosquito nets, intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women, indoor residual spraying, rapid diagnostic tests, and artemisinin-based combination therapy -- contributed to decreasing the death rate from malaria in Zambia by 60 percent.