ArticleAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2022
Sociocultural factors that influence the prevention of malaria in Ohangwena region, Namibia.
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- Social determinants of malaria in low- and middle-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review.Malaria journal · 2025Pooled it
- Investigating the impact of human behavioural factors on the effectiveness of malaria interventions in malaria-endemic regions: A systematic review.Current research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2026Review
- Erema po otjindjumba? Highlighting cultural models and knowledge gaps of malaria in rural Namibian pastoralists.Malaria journal · 2025Article
- What do women in the highest malaria burden country know about ways to prevent malaria? A multi-level analysis of the 2021 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey data.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- High-resolution spatio-temporal risk mapping for malaria in Namibia: a comprehensive analysis.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Vegetation index and livestock practices as predictors of malaria transmission in Nigeria.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Knowledge and Practices of Women Regarding Malaria and Its Prevention: A Community-Based Study in an Area under Malaria Elimination Programme in Iran.Journal of arthropod-borne diseases · 2023Article
- Determinants of Malaria Insecticide-Treated Nets Use Among Women of Reproductive Age in Nigeria.Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical AssociationReview
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Abstract
backgroundNamibia is undergoing an epidemiological transition after decline in local transmission of malaria, and the country is now in a position to move towards eliminating local transmission by 2030. However, malaria prevalence cannot be adequately explained from medical and modern prevention points of view alone. The persistence of malaria might appear as a result of not recognising sociocultural factors that seem useful in the prevention of malaria, Hence, studies on sociocultural factors are limited.
aimThe aim of this study was to describe the sociocultural factors that influence the prevention of malaria in Ohangwena region.
settingThe study was conducted in Ohangwena region of northern Namibia.
methodsThis study was a cross-sectional study and a mixed methods, convergent parallel design was employed.
resultsThe major theme revealed that traditional prevention methods of malaria are widely available in rural communities. The best accepted traditional prevention methods include tumbleweed, bitter bush and animal dung. Quantitative findings indicated that 67.0% of participants felt that nets are expensive. Key barriers included the long distance to access health facilities (29.1%), long waiting times (25.8%) and the lack of money to pay for services and transport (22.5%).
conclusionThe limited access to and cost of Western prevention methods minimise protection because of priority and resource allocations, but it could be mitigated with the use of locally available traditional prevention practices used for many years in curbing malaria. There is a need to create awareness about socioculturally congruent malaria care.Contribution: This study has revealed the need to combine standard prevention with traditional prevention practices in the fight against malaria, and it intensified research focusing on interventions that address sociocultural factors for the prevention of malaria in endemic regions. In addition, part of the novelty of the study is establishing the need to test the efficacy of traditional practices used.
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