Assessment of Malaria Control Programme in the United Arab Emirates

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طب

الملخص

Malaria disease considered as one of the biggest health problems in the world. The present study is designed to describe and assess the epidemiological and entomological surveillance methods as well as the mosquito control activities, adopted in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Central Malaria Department (CMD) and Dhaid Malaria Unit (DMU) in Sharjah Emirate were targeted to accomplish the study. The collection of data is based on questionnaire, checklists, field investigation, personal observation, group discussions, review of literature (published & unpublished) and the Ministry of Health reports. The results of the study disclosed that the positive malaria cases detected in CMD laboratory during the year 2011 were 537 out of 2615 blood films examined. All malaria cases were discovered among the expatraites communities. The majority of those cases were recorded within the Pakistani and Indian expatraites. Plasmodium Vivax parasite is most common among the expatraites from Asian countries (Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Nepal), while Plasmodium falciparum is predominant among expatriates from African countries (Sudan, Nigeria, and Uganda). The entomological surveillance operations and mosquito control activities in DMU pinpointed four Anopheles species and revealed that farms and stream pockets constitute the major mosquitoes breeding sites. The breeding sites were treated with chemical larvicides and in some places coupled with biological control (larvivorous fish (. The outcome of the study emphasized the effectiveness of the Malaria Control Programme adopted in UAE (no malaria transmission, no endemicity, and no epidemicity). It is recommended that regular survey of labours camps, prompt notification of discovered malaria cases to CMD, performance of malaria pre-test to expatriates from endemic countries, continuation of mosquito control activities and dissemination of awareness regard malaria disease among farm owners will enable the Health Authorities in UAE to maintain the successful Malaria Control Programme.

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التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

0f03a44d-7075-49d9-a84a-f59caba5d848

رقم العقد

0

نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

pdf text

أسماء الملفات

72950_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Assessment of Malaria Control Programme in the United Arab Emirates

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

0

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

Nasir Ahmed Ali Mohammed , Abdelelah Mohammed Elhassan

الإعداد

Elzubeir Yousif Dafalla Magboul

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية