Does irrigated urban agriculture influence the transmission of malaria in the city of Kumasi, Ghana?

Acta Tropica

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-134

  Afrane, Yaw Asare ^a,b   Klinkenberg, Eveline ^c   Drechsel, Pay ^c   Owusu Daaku, Kofi ^a   Garms, Rolf ^d   Kruppa, Thomas ^a  

^a KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^d Bernhard Nocht Inst for Trop Med   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Economic impact; Ghana; Irrigation; Malaria transmission; Urban agriculture

Indexed keywords

DNA; RAIN;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; IRRIGATION; MALARIA; URBAN AGRICULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FARMING SYSTEM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HEALTH; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LARVA; MALARIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRODUCTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA; VEGETABLE; WATER SUPPLY; ZOOLOGY;

AFRICA; ASHANTI; GHANA; KUMASI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE;

EID: 0347987922     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Adam, M.G., 2001. Definition and boundaries of the peri-urban interface - patterns in the patchwork. In: Drechsel, P., Kunze, D. (Eds.), Waste Composting for Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture - Closing the Rural-Urban Nutrient Cycle in Sub-Saharan Africa. IWMI/FAO/CABI, Wallingford, pp. 193-208.
2. Asenso-Okyere W.K., Dzator J.A. Household cost of seeking malaria care. A retrospective study of two districts in Ghana. Soc. Sci. Med. 5:1997;659-667.
3. Birley, M., Lock, K., 1999. The Health Impacts of Peri-urban Natural Resource Development, Health Hazard Classification. Cromwell Press, pp. 23-26.
4. Chinery W.A. Effects of ecological changes on the malaria vectors Anopheles funestus and the Anopheles gambiae complex of mosquitoes in Accra, Ghana. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 87:1984;75-81.
5. Cofie, O.O., Drechsel, P., Amoah, P., Danso, G., Gyiele, L., 2001. Improving rural-urban nutrient flows through urban and pen-urban agriculture. In: Rural-Urban Encounters: Managing the Environment of the Peri-urban Interface. DPU international Conference Paper, London, November 2001 [Abstract under http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/pui/pui-abst.htm ].
6. Collins F.H., Mendez M.A., Rasmussen M.O., Mehaffey P.C., Besansky N.J., Finnerty V. A ribosomal RNA gene probe differentiates member species of the Anopheles gambiae complex. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 37:1987;37-41.
7. Dossou-Yovo J., Doannio J., Riviere F., Duval J. Rice cultivation and malaria transmission in Bouake city (Cote d'Ivoire). Acta Trop. 57:1994;91-94.
8. Dossou-Yovo J., Doannio J.M., Diarrassouba S., Chauvancy G. Impact d'aménagements de rizières sur la transmission du paludisme dans la ville de Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire. Bull. Soc. Pathol. Exot. 91:1998;327-333.
9. El Sayed B.B., Arnot D.E., Mukhtar M.M., Baraka O.Z., Dafalla A.A., Elnaiem D.E.A., Nugud A.H.D. A study of the urban malaria transmission problem in Khartoum. Acta Trop. 75:2000;163-171.
10. Gardiner C., Biggar R.J., Collins W.E., Nkrumah F.K. Malaria in urban and rural areas of southern Ghana: a survey of parasiteamia, antibodies, and antimalarial practices. Bull. WHO. 62:1984;607-613.
11. Ghana Statistical Service, 2002. 2000 Population and housing census. Special Report on 20 Largest Localities. Ghana Statistical Service, March 2002.
12. Gillies, M.T., De Meillon, B., 1968. The Anophelinae of Africa South of the Sahara. No. 54. Publication of the South African Institute of Medical Research.
13. Ijumba J.N., Lindsay S.W. Impact of irrigation on malaria in Africa: paddies paradox. Med. Vet. Entomol. 15:2001;1-11.
14. Lock K., De Zeeuw H. Mitigating the health risks associated with urban and periurban agriculture. Results of the E-conference "Urban and Periurban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda" Urban Agric. Mag. 1:2001;6-8.
15. Maxwell, D., Levin, C., Armar-Klemesu, M., Ruel, M., Morris, S., Ahiadeke, C., 2000. Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra. IFPRI Research Report, vol. 112, 72 pp.
16. MOH, 2001. Health Management Information Bulletin. Ministry of Health, Accra, pp. 1-3.
17. Robert V., Awono-Ambene H.P., Thioulouse J. Ecology of larval mosquitoes with special reference to Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidac) in market-garden wells in urban Dakar, Senegal. J. Med. Entomol. 35:1998;948-955.
18. Robert V., MacIntyre K., Keating J., Trape J.F., Duchemin J.B., McWarren W., Beier J. Malaria transmission in urban sub-Saharan Africa. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 68:2003;169-176.
19. Ryan J.R., Dave K., Emmerich E., Gareja L., Coleman R.E., Sattabongkot J., Dunton R.F., Chan A.S.T., Wirtz R.A. Dipsticks for rapid detection of Plasmodium in vectoring Anopheles mosquitoes. Med. Vet. Entomol. 15:2001;225-230.
20. Sabatinelli G., Bosman A., Lamizana L., Rossi P. Prévalence du paludisme a Ouagadougou et dans le milieu rural limitrophe en période de transmission maximale. Parassitologia. 28:1986;17-31.
21. Scott J.A., Brogden W.G., Collins F.H. Identification of single specimens of the Anopheles gambiae complex by the polymerase chain reaction. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 49:1993;520-529.
22. Service, M.W., 1993. Sampling the adult resting population. Mosquito Ecology. Field Sampling Methods. Chapman and Hall, UK, pp. 210-290 (Chapter 3).
23. Snow R.W., Peshu N., Forster D., Bomu G., Mitsanze E., Ngumbao E., Chisengwa R., Schellenberg J.R., Hayes R.J., Newbold C.I., Marsh K. Environmental and entomological risk factors for the development of clinical malaria among children on the Kenyan coast. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 92:1998;381-385.
24. Trape J.Y. Malaria and urbanization in Central Africa: the example of Brazzaville. Part IV. Parasitological and serological surveys in urban and surrounding rural areas. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 81(S2):1987;26-33.
25. Trape J.F., Zoulani A. Malaria and urbanization in Central Africa: the example of Brazzaville, part III: Relationships between urbanization and the intensity of malaria transmission. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 81(S2):1987;19-25.
26. UNDP, 1996. Urban agriculture. Food, jobs and sustainable cities. United Nations Development Programme, Publications Series for Habitat II, vol. 1. UNDP, New York.
27. UN-Habitat, 2001. Cities in a globalizing world. Global Report on Human Settlements 2001. UNCHS, Earthscan Publications, London.
28. Vercruysse J., Jancloes M., Van de Velden L. Epidemiology of seasonal falciparum malaria in an urban area of Senegal. Bull. WHO. 61:1983;821-831.
29. Warren, McW., Billig, P., Bendahmane, D., Wijeyaratne, P., 1999. Malaria in urban and peri-urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa. EHP Activity Report no.71.
30. White, C.J., 1998. Mosquito population densities and natural resource production in Kumasi. M.Sc. Thesis. The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, pp. 1-29.