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. 2020 Apr 25;19(1):166.
doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03238-0.

Proactive community case management in Senegal 2014-2016: a case study in maximizing the impact of community case management of malaria

Seynabou Gaye  1 , Janelle Kibler  2 , Jean Louis Ndiaye  3 , Mame Birame Diouf  4   5 , Annē Linn  6   7 , Alioune Badara Gueye  1 , Fatou Ba Fall  1 , Médoune Ndiop  1 , Ibrahima Diallo  1 , Moustapha Cisse  1 , Mady Ba  1 , Julie Thwing  8
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Proactive community case management in Senegal 2014-2016: a case study in maximizing the impact of community case management of malaria

Seynabou Gaye et al. Malar J. .

Abstract

The Senegal National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) introduced home-based malaria management for all ages, with diagnosis by rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in 2008, expanding to over 2000 villages nationwide by 2014. With prise en charge à domicile (PECADOM), community health workers (CHWs) were available for community members to seek care, but did not actively visit households to find cases. A trial of a proactive model (PECADOM Plus), in which CHWs visited all households in their village weekly during transmission season to identify fever cases and offer case management, in addition to availability during the week for home-based management, found that CHWs detected and treated more cases in intervention villages, while the number of cases detected weekly decreased over the transmission season. The NMCP scaled PECADOM Plus to three districts in 2014 (132 villages), to a total of six districts in 2015 (246 villages), and to a total of 16 districts in 2016 (708 villages). A narrative case study with programmatic results is presented. During active sweeps over approximately 20 weeks, CHWs tested a mean of 77 patients per CHW in 2014, 89 patients per CHW in 2015, and 90 patients per CHW in 2016, and diagnosed a mean of 61, 61 and 43 patients with malaria per CHW in 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. The number of patients who sought care between sweeps increased, with a 104% increase in the number of RDTs performed and a 77% increase in the number of positive tests and patients treated with ACT during passive case detection. While the number of CHWs increased 7%, the number of patients receiving an RDT increased by 307% and the number of malaria cases detected and treated by CHWs increased 274%, from the year prior to PECADOM Plus introduction to its first year of implementation. Based on these results, approximately 700 additional CHWs in 24 new districts were added in 2017. This case study describes the process, results and lessons learned from Senegal's implementation of PECADOM Plus, as well as guidance for other programmes considering introduction of this innovative strategy.

Keywords: Community case management; Diagnosis; Malaria; Proactive; Treatment.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Figures

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Senegal PECADOM Plus scale-up by region and year, 2014 to 2016
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Parasite prevalence by region in Senegal, 2017
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Total fever cases managed by DSDOM by year and region during introduction of PECADOM Plus, including both actively and passively detected cases, by test status
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Malaria cases diagnosed by community health workers, by region, of passively and actively detected cases, among children < 5 years and residents ≥ years, 2010–2016
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