Greenwood, Brian; Cairns, Matthew; Chaponda, Mike; Chico, R Matthew; Dicko, Alassane; Ouedraogo, Jean-Bosco; Phiri, Kamija S; Ter Kuile, Feiko O; Chandramohan, Daniel; (2021) Combining malaria vaccination with chemoprevention: a promising new approach to malaria control. Malaria journal, 20 (1). 361-. ISSN 1475-2875 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03888-8
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Abstract
Malaria control has stalled in a number of African countries and novel approaches to malaria control are needed for these areas. The encouraging results of a recent trial conducted in young children in Burkina Faso and Mali in which a combination of the RTS,S/AS01E malaria vaccine and seasonal malaria chemoprevention led to a substantial reduction in clinical cases of malaria, severe malaria, and malaria deaths compared with the administration of either intervention given alone suggests that there may be other epidemiological/clinical situations in which a combination of malaria vaccination and chemoprevention could be beneficial. Some of these potential opportunities are considered in this paper. These include combining vaccination with intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants, with intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (through vaccination of women of child-bearing age before or during pregnancy), or with post-discharge malaria chemoprevention in the management of children recently admitted to hospital with severe anaemia. Other potential uses of the combination are prevention of malaria in children at particular risk from the adverse effects of clinical malaria, such as those with sickle cell disease, and during the final stages of a malaria elimination programme when vaccination could be combined with repeated rounds of mass drug administration. The combination of a pre-erythrocytic stage malaria vaccine with an effective chemopreventive regimen could make a valuable contribution to malaria control and elimination in a variety of clinical or epidemiological situations, and the potential of this approach to malaria control needs to be explored.
Item Type | Article |
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Faculty and Department | Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Disease Control |
Research Centre |
Vaccine Centre Centre for Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) Malaria Centre |
PubMed ID | 34488784 |
Elements ID | 165948 |
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