Joint COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Malaria Reactive Case Detection as Efficient Strategies for Disease Control

Ebenezer Krampah Aidoo; Daniel Sai Squire; Obed Ohene-Djan Atuahene; Kingsley Badu; Felix Abekah Botchway; George Osei-Adjei; Samuel Asamoah Sakyi; Linda Amoah; Michael Appiah; Ruth Duku-Takyi; Richard Harry Asmah; Bernard Walter Lawson; Karen Angeliki Krogfelt

doi:10.3390/covid2090091

Joint COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Malaria Reactive Case Detection as Efficient Strategies for Disease Control

Ebenezer Krampah Aidoo^*, Daniel Sai Squire, Obed Ohene-Djan Atuahene, Kingsley Badu, Felix Abekah Botchway, George Osei-Adjei, Samuel Asamoah Sakyi, Linda Amoah, Michael Appiah, Ruth Duku-Takyi, Richard Harry Asmah, Bernard Walter Lawson, Karen Angeliki Krogfelt

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Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) contact tracing and malaria reactive case detection (RACD) are effective strategies for disease control. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global attention COVID-19 has received in the recent past and present has hampered malaria control efforts. Among these are difficulties in finding and treating malaria-infected individuals in hypoendemic settings in the community, due to lockdown restrictions by countries. It is common knowledge that malaria cases that cannot be identified remain untreated. To sustain the gains made in malaria control, we proposed a two-pronged hybrid approach for COVID-19 contact tracing and malaria RACD in communities with COVID-19 and malaria coinfections. Such an approach would equally factor the burden of malaria cases and COVID-19 to support an effective strategy for responding to current and future pandemics.

Original language	English
Journal	COVID
Volume	2
Issue number	9
Pages (from-to)	1244-1252
Number of pages	9
ISSN	2673-8112
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/covid2090091
Publication status	Published - Sept 2022

Keywords

COVID-19
contact tracing
hypoendemic settings
malaria
pandemic
reactive case detection
strategy

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Aidoo, E. K., Squire, D. S., Atuahene, O. O.-D., Badu, K., Botchway, F. A., Osei-Adjei, G., Sakyi, S. A., Amoah, L., Appiah, M., Duku-Takyi, R., Asmah, R. H., Lawson, B. W., & Krogfelt, K. A. (2022). Joint COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Malaria Reactive Case Detection as Efficient Strategies for Disease Control. COVID, 2(9), 1244-1252. https://doi.org/10.3390/covid2090091

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