Skip to main content

Table 5 The hypothesized consequences of malaria intermittent screening and treatment in schools in coastal Kenya

From: Cost analysis of school-based intermittent screening and treatment of malaria in Kenya

Consequences

Justification of Consequence

Health

  

Reduced anaemia

48% reduction of moderate anaemia was found from IPT in Kenyan school children and improved haemoglobin in Ugandan children using IPT.

[3, 11]

Reduced clinical malaria

Reductions of between 42% and 67% reported by seasonally targeted IPT trials in schools in Mali.

[10, 61]

Reduced malaria transmission

Modelling studies of community based IST and school based IPT suggests potential for considerable impact on transmission of malaria due to treatment of asymptomatic disease reservoir

[12, 54]

Surveillance data

Potential of school malaria surveys for community surveillance of malaria.

Early detection systems for malaria in the Kenyan highlands were found to cost US$15,512 per district.

[16, 55, 62, 63]

[64]

Drug resistance

Modelling studies highlight the increased resistant parasite selection pressure due to treatment of asymptomatic infection.

[56, 65, 66]

Non-Health

  

Improved educational achievement

Improvement in attendance, cognitive ability and educational attainment found from IPT or chemoprophylaxis in school children.

[3, 5, 7]

Cost reductions

Local household cost burden reduced by US$ 2.52 per malaria episode.

[57]