Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine chemoprevention and malaria incidence after severe flooding: evaluation of a pragmatic intervention in rural Uganda.
Ross M BoyceBrandon D HollingsworthEmma BagumaErin XuVarun GoelAmanda Brown-MarusiakRabbison MuhindoRaquel ReyesMoses NtaroMark J SiednerSarah G StaedkeJonathan J JulianoEdgar M MulogoPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
Three rounds of chemoprevention with DP delivered under pragmatic conditions reduced the incidence of malaria after severe flooding in western Uganda. These findings provide a proof-of-concept for the use of malaria chemoprevention to reduce excess disease burden associated with severe flooding.