Mazingira and the malady of malaria: Perceptions of malaria as an environmental disease in contemporary Zanzibar

Graboyes, Melissa; Meta, Judith; Clarke, Rhaine

doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.07.005

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“…Mosquitoes are hematophagous and have been successful over many years serving as vectors for the transmission of malaria and other infectious diseases. The induction of selective pressures for the mosquito vector from transgenes or by-products of a poorly introduced control or preventive intervention may have dire consequences on malaria transmission and other mosquito-borne diseases [79,123,129,140,141]. Mosquito vectors under genetic pressures may select new preferences and competency for hosts, bridge and or transmit new infectious disease pathogens across the human-animal interphase.…”

Section: Ending Malaria Transmissions By 2030 the One-health Waymentioning

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One Health Perspective of Malaria Transmission

Bedford Danquah,

Afua Afrifa Yamoah

2024

Infectious Diseases

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Global efforts towards malaria control and elimination are promising. Despite this, current alterations in transmission continue to modify and frustrate such effort. In 2020 and 2021, malaria transmissions increased significantly. While 2021 showed a decline in malaria deaths by 6000 (1%), the numbers were still 51,000 (9%) higher than malaria deaths in 2019. Two-thirds of the contributing factors were attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, thus demonstrating the capability of future pandemics and zoonotic diseases to stagger or derail earned achievements towards malaria elimination. Compounded by zoonotic and environmental factors that promote malaria transmission, there will be a need for relevant modelling and an update on current and past disease distribution information and will also be required to shape policy actions and to improve public health decision-making on malaria. These will help strengthen the evidence for the adoption of relevant implementation strategies to aid the 2030 vision of eliminating malaria a reality.

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Section: Ending Malaria Transmissions By 2030 the One-health Waymentioning

confidence: 99%

One Health Perspective of Malaria Transmission

Bedford Danquah,

Afua Afrifa Yamoah

2024

Infectious Diseases

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Puddles, creeks, and drainage: connected histories of water and malaria in Zanzibar, 1910–2021

Graboyes,

Meta,

Clarke

et al. 2024

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This article draws on a combination of archival and oral sources in order to highlight the connected histories of water and malaria on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar (Unguja) over the past century. We argue that in both the past and the present, water and malaria have been deeply connected, through the lifecycle of the disease, through control measures enacted, and in how Zanzibari residents continue to talk about the relationship between rain, puddles, stagnant water, and disease. Archival sources show that between roughly 1913 and 1957, the British colonial government managed malaria by managing water. That entailed a focus on watery breeding sites that included attention to both the micro: cattle hoofprints, and the macro: a multi-decade drainage of the tidal creek and surrounding swamp. These water-based malaria control efforts were limited in their efficacy by being geographically restricted to urban Zanzibar Town, and often limited to just the Stone Town area. 98 interviews conducted with Zanzibaris about malaria indicate that people continue to draw strong connections between malaria and the environment (mazingira), and that they most commonly discuss water’s relationship with malaria in terms of puddles (dimbwi/madimbwi), small puddles (kidimbwi/vidimbwi) and stagnant water (maji yaliyotuama).

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Where organisms meet the environment

Baedke

Buklijaš

2023

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

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Mazingira and the malady of malaria: Perceptions of malaria as an environmental disease in contemporary Zanzibar

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

One Health Perspective of Malaria Transmission

One Health Perspective of Malaria Transmission

Puddles, creeks, and drainage: connected histories of water and malaria in Zanzibar, 1910–2021

Where organisms meet the environment

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