Pare-Taveta

The Pare-Taveta Malaria Scheme, 1954-1966

In 1950, a major conference took place in Kampala, Uganda to determine how the Global Malaria Eradication Programme should proceed in Africa [1]. While Fred Soper argued for scaling up malaria control immediately, others who had worked in Africa expressed some caution. The compromise position was to fund a set of trials in Pare, Kenya, and Taveta, Tanzania (at the time, Tanganyika) to evaluate the risk of malaria resurgence.

• Baseline Studies, 1954-1956

• Baseline Studies, 1954-1956

• Morbidity and mortality at Pare-Taveta, Kenya and Tanzania, 1954-66: The effects of a period of malaria control, by David Bradley [2], is a good overview of the whole project with a focus on changes in mortality.

• Spraying, 1954-1956

References

1.

Dobson MJ, Malowany M, Snow RW. Malaria control in East Africa: The Kampala Conference and the Pare-Taveta Scheme: A meeting of common and high ground. Parassitologia. 2000;42: 149–166. Available: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11234325

2.

Bradley D. Morbidity and mortality at Pare-Taveta, Kenya and Tanzania, 1954-66: The effects of a period of malaria control. In: Feachem RGA, Jamison DT, editors. Disease and Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford University Press; 1991. pp. 248–263.