Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.
Trends Parasitol. 2011 Nov;27(11):477-80. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.06.005. Epub 2011 Jul 27.
Employment of members of the community to treat malaria is a promising approach to the management of this infection in areas where access to treatment is difficult. Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) of malaria has recently been shown to be a highly effective way of reducing morbidity from malaria in children living in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, and it can be delivered efficiently by community volunteers. Therefore, we suggest that in areas where malaria transmission is seasonal, and IPT an appropriate malaria intervention in children, community volunteers could be employed to deliver IPT during the peak malaria-transmission season and also to provide community case management during this period and during the rest of the year when occasional cases of malaria continue to occur.
雇用社区成员来治疗疟疾是在难以获得治疗的地区管理这种感染的一种很有前途的方法。间歇性预防治疗（IPT）最近已被证明是一种非常有效的方法，可以降低季节性疟疾传播地区儿童的疟疾发病率，而且社区志愿者可以高效地提供这种治疗。因此，我们建议在疟疾传播具有季节性的地区，IPT 是儿童的一种适当的疟疾干预措施，可以雇用社区志愿者在疟疾传播高峰期提供 IPT，并在这段时间以及疟疾偶发病例继续发生的全年期间提供社区病例管理。
