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3 November 2008
Individual, household and environmental risk factors for malaria infection in Amhara, Oromia and SNNP regions of Ethiopia (PDF)
This article was published in the November 2009 edition of Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and reprinted with permission.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (c) 2008, doi:10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.11.016. Graves et. al. The authors assessed malaria infection in relation to age, altitude, rainfall, socio-economic factors and coverage of control measures in a representative sample of 11 437 people in Amhara, Oromia and SNNP regions of Ethiopia in December 2006—January 2007. Surveys were conducted in 224 randomly selected clusters of 25 households (overall sample of 27 884 people in 5708 households).

21 September 2008
Malaria prevalence and mosquito net coverage in Oromia and SNNPR regions of Ethiopia (PDF)
BMC Public Health; 8:321. (C) 2008 Shargie et al. Malaria transmission in Ethiopia is unstable and seasonal, with the majority of the country's population living in malaria-prone areas. Results from DHS 2005 indicate that the coverage of key malaria interventions was low. The government of Ethiopia has set the national goal of full population coverage with a mean of 2 long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) per household through distribution of about 20 million LLIN by the end of 2007. The aim of this study was to generate baseline information on malaria parasite prevalence and coverage of key malaria control
interventions in Oromia and SNNPR and to relate the prevalence survey findings to routine
surveillance data just before further mass distribution of LLINs.

3 July 2008
Evaluation of light microscopy and rapid diagnostic test for the detection of malaria under operational field conditions: a household survey in Ethiopia (PDF)
Malaria Journal; 7:118. (C) 2008. Endeshaw et al. In most resource-poor settings, malaria is usually diagnosed based on clinical signs and symptoms and not by detection of parasites in the blood using microscopy or rapid diagnostic tests (RDT). In population-based malaria surveys, accurate diagnosis is important: microscopy provides the gold standard, whilst RDTs allow immediate findings and treatment. The concordance between RDTs and microscopy in low or unstable transmission areas has not been evaluated.

19 March 2008
Integrating an NTD with One of ''The Big Three'': Combined Malaria and Trachoma Survey in Amhara Region of Ethiopia (PDF)
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases; Volume 2, Issue 3, e197. ©2008 Emerson et al. Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia has a population of approximately 19.6 million, is prone to unstable and epidemic malaria, and is severely affected by trachoma. An integrated malaria and trachoma control program is being implemented by the Regional Health Bureau. To provide baseline data, a survey was conducted during December 2006 to estimate malaria parasite prevalence, malaria indicators, prevalence of trachoma, and trachoma risk factors in households and people of all ages in each of the ten zones of the state, excluding three urban centers (0.4% of the population).