Complexities in Defining the Unit of Intervention for Reactive Community-Based Malaria Treatment in the Gambia

• Main Authors: Fatou Jaiteh (Author), Joan Muela Ribera (Author), Yoriko Masunaga (Author), Joseph Okebe (Author), Umberto D'Alessandro (Author), Julie Balen (Author), Jane Achan (Author), Rene Gerrets (Author), Koen Peeters Grietens (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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With significant declines in malaria, infections are increasingly clustered in households, or groups of households where malaria transmission is higher than in surrounding household/villages. To decrease transmission in such cases, reactive interventions target household members of clinical malaria...