AN ANALYSIS OF THE INTEGRATED MALARIA VECTOR CONTROL POLICY IN GHANA INTRODUCTION Malaria is a major public health problem in Ghana. It is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality‚ especially in children under five years of age and pregnant women. It is the most common cause of outpatient visits‚ hospitalization and death. Malaria is also a development problem as it has a serious socio-economic impact on families and the nation‚ through loss of work‚ school absenteeism and high levels
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What is the world health organization? The world health organization is an agency of the United Nations whose main function is to promote health and control communicable diseases. The Organization was established in 1948 as a specialized agency of the United Nations serving as the directing and coordinating authority for international health matters and public health One of WHO’s constitutional functions is to provide objective and reliable information and advice in the field of human health‚
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Anopheles Quadrimaculators Vectors: Organochloride DDT and Global Malaria Paper on Organochloride’s Effect on Global Malaria Dr. Stephanie P. McCallum Ed.D. Environmental Health Public Health 8165 -1
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Hewlett-Packard Company 2013 Biology Assessment task- 3 Infectious and Non Infectious disease By Carla Westwood Question One- Part A Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that causes over 2.7 million deaths per year according to estimates by the World Health Organization. The history of malaria predates humanity‚ as this ancient disease evolved before humans did. Malaria‚ a widespread and potentially lethal infectious disease‚ has afflicted people for much of human history‚ and has affected settlement
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If the proper drugs are used‚ people who have malaria can be cured and the parasites can be cleared from their body. According to an article on Drugs.com‚ the drugs that are available for treating people with malaria are: chloroquine‚ quinine‚ hydroxychloroquine‚ artemether and lumefantrine (coartem)‚ atovaquane and proguanil (malarone)‚ mefloquine‚ clindamycin (cleocin) and doxycycline. The four most common anti-malarial medications prescribed in the United States for foreign travel are: chloroquine
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associated with Malaria. Many people in the Western United States contracted Malaria around the time of Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Malaria was spread by mosquito and very easily contracted. If Lewis had contracted Malaria‚ like said in Theories and Interpretations of Meriwether Lewis’ Death‚ he would have most likely gotten it during his expedition. Many people studying malaria have said that Lewis’ behavior was very similar to case studies of people who had contracted the disease. Malaria was also
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The malaria parasite metabolizes food and produces carbon dioxide as a waste product. This carbon dioxide‚ when in an an environment like that inside a red blood cell‚ forms carbonic acid. Because of these high levels of C02 and acid‚ the hemoglobin in a parasitized
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Stem Cell Research Adult stem cell research is providing opportunities to treat people with a various diseases and conditions. In 2010‚ a man’s ankle refused to heal so the doctor took bone marrow from the man’s pelvic bone with a needle‚ condensed it to about four teaspoons of rich red liquid‚ and injected that into his ankle. Four months later‚ the ankle was healed! Adult stem cells are found in all tissues of the growing human being and‚ according to latest reports‚ also have the potential
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study the sickle cell carriers have an advantage over non carriers as in those regions a great cause of death is malaria. The sickle cell carriers seem to have some resistance to malaria and therefore survive to produce offspring‚ those advantageous characteristics pass on to the descendants in this case the heterozygous gene for sickle cell‚ the descendants will in turn be resistant to malaria and therefore have a greater probability of surviving to produce offspring as well with the advantageous sickle
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explanation could be identified it was happening because of “falling upon a curse” Parasites are also responsible for malaria. 3 Malaria is a life-threatening disease that’s typically transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito (Healthline). The main complication which makes vaccination of malaria difficult is parasites which cause malaria. Parasites which contribute to malaria have proven to be difficult to manage. The reason for this is the population of these parasites. These parasites are
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