Table 2 Thematic areas and specific topics
Programmatic themes | Number | Percent | Research topics | Number | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Diagnosis | 47 | 9.1% | RDT | 25 | 4.9% |
Parasitologically-confirmed diagnosis | 9 | 1.7% | |||
Diagnostics comparison | 10 | 1.9% | |||
Perception & adherence to guidelines | 2 | 0.4% | |||
QA/EQA | 1 | 0.2% | |||
Treatment | 84 | 16.3% | G6PD | 3 | 0.6% |
Anti-relapse and Primaquine | 6 | 1.2% | |||
Accessibility to treatment | 10 | 1.9% | |||
Adherence to treatment | 15 | 2.9% | |||
Home management | 18 | 3.5% | |||
Efficacy and resistance to antimalarial | 5 | 1.0% | |||
Treatment perception & behaviour | 27 | 5.2% | |||
Prevention | 52 | 10.1% | Community perception & practice | 14 | 2.7% |
Prevention & IPTp | 27 | 5.2% | |||
Prevention & IPTi | 5 | 1.0% | |||
Prevention & IPTc | 5 | 1.0% | |||
Chemoprophylaxis | 1 | 0.2% | |||
Vector control | 129 | 25.0% | Perception & acceptability of IRS | 5 | 1.0% |
Perception & acceptability of bednets | 32 | 6.2% | |||
Environment management | 5 | 1.0% | |||
Mosquito sampling methods | 5 | 1.0% | |||
ITN vs IRS and combination | 5 | 1.0% | |||
Ownership & utilization of bednets | 40 | 7.8% | |||
Bionomics of vector & efficacy of insecticide | 21 | 4.1% | |||
Larvae & larviciding | 4 | 0.8% | |||
Impact of anti-vector intervention | 5 | 1.0% | |||
Outdoor-biting | 4 | 0.8% | |||
Sustain or phase out of vector intervention | 1 | 0.2% | |||
IVM | 1 | 0.2% | |||
Geographical Reconnaissance (GR) | 1 | 0.2% | |||
Epidemiology & transmission | 85 | 16.5% | Infection reservoir-asymptomatic, submicroscopic, gametocyte carriers | 15 | 2.9% |
Risk factor & Prevalence | 22 | 4.3% | |||
Hotspot & foci | 7 | 1.4% | |||
Importation | 13 | 2.5% | |||
Elimination strategy | 2 | 0.4% | |||
Reintroduction | 4 | 0.8% | |||
Risk & distribution mapping/model | 22 | 4.3% | |||
Surveillance | 19 | 3.8% | Reporting & quality of data | 6 | 1.2% |
Mobile phone-based case detection | 3 | 0.6% | |||
ACD vs PCD | 8 | 1.6% | |||
Surveillance as intervention | 1 | 0.2% | |||
Early warning & response | 1 | 0.2% | |||
Health system | 73 | 14.2% | Health worker's perception & practice | 27 | 5.2% |
Availability & use of service | 7 | 1.4% | |||
Health facility performance | 19 | 3.7% | |||
Provision of service by private sectors | 6 | 1.2% | |||
Perception & adherence to guidelines of private sectors | 5 | 1.0% | |||
Subsidy policy to private sectors | 8 | 1.6% | |||
Malaria reporting by private sectors | 1 | 0.2% | |||
Cost-effectiveness | 26 | 5.0% | Â | 26 | 5.0% |
Total | 515 | 100.0% | Â | 515 | 100.0% |