Blood slide examination is used as standard malaria diagnosis in Indonesia. Quality assurance for malaria microscopic examination is an important issue in the monitoring and supervision of the administration of antimalarials drugs. This step was done to determine the accuracy of the diagnosis, thus could be used for further evaluation in improving the skills of microscopic health centre person…
Malaria is still a health problem in Kulonprogo Regency, particularly in the Kokap Subdistrict. In the last two years indicate that in 2009, 1 out of 5 villages in Kokap Subdistrict were considered as malarious areas with Low Case Incidence (LCI). In the year of 2010, it increased to 3 villages. The increase of malaria cases in Kokap Subdistrict was related to the presence of Anopheline mosqui…
Sant’un village is one of malaria endemic areas in MuaraUya Sub distric, Tabalong district, South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. Annual Parasite Indidences (Apls) from 2007 to 2009 were 11.4, 82.9. and 25.8% respectively. The majority of Muara Uya population are rubber tappers, gold miners and loggers in the forest. Moreover, most of the Muara Uya population do not use mosquito nets when sle…