Malakit: an innovative pilot project to self-diagnose and self-treat malaria among illegal gold miners in the Guiana Shield

Douine, Maylis; Sanna, Alice; Galindo, Muriel; Musset, L.; Pommier de Santi, Vincent; Marchesini, Paola; Dias Magalhaes, Edgard; Cecília Suárez-Mútis, Martha; Hiwat, Hélène; Nacher, Mathieu; Vreden, Stephen; Garancher, Laure

doi:10.1186/s12936-018-2306-5

Public

Malakit: an innovative pilot project to self-diagnose and self-treat malaria among illegal gold miners in the Guiana Shield

Published in Malaria Journal • Apr 10, 2018

Authors:

Maylis Douine

Alice Sanna

Muriel Galindo

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Illegal gold miners in French Guiana, a French overseas territory ('département') located in Amazonia, often carry malaria parasites (up to 46.8%). While the Guiana Shield Region aims at malaria elimination, the high prevalence of Plasmodium in this hard-to-reach population in conjunctio...

Subject

Malaria

Context (archaeology)

Tropical medicine

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!