The impact of delayed treatment of uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria on progression to severe malaria: A systematic review and a pooled multicentre individual …

A Mousa, A Al-Taiar, NM Anstey, C Badaut… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Delay in receiving treatment for uncomplicated malaria (UM) is often reported to
increase the risk of developing severe malaria (SM), but access to treatment remains low in …

Routine data for malaria morbidity estimation in Africa: challenges and prospects

VA Alegana, EA Okiro, RW Snow - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background The burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa remains challenging to measure
relying on epidemiological modelling to evaluate the impact of investments and providing an …

A cross-country database of COVID-19 testing

J Hasell, E Mathieu, D Beltekian, B Macdonald… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
Our understanding of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic is built upon data concerning
confirmed cases and deaths. This data, however, can only be meaningfully interpreted …

Data resource profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths

T Riffe, E Acosta - International Journal of Epidemiology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Generally, COVID-19 cases, deaths and tests in age groups are reported as counts, but
some sources report data in other metrics (fractions, percentages, ratios) or as summary …

Sub-national stratification of malaria risk in mainland Tanzania: a simplified assembly of survey and routine data

SG Thawer, F Chacky, M Runge, E Reaves, R Mandike… - Malaria journal, 2020 - Springer
Background Recent malaria control efforts in mainland Tanzania have led to progressive
changes in the prevalence of malaria infection in children, from 18.1%(2008) to 7.3%(2017) …

[HTML][HTML] Descriptive study of COVID-19 outbreak among passengers and crew on Diamond Princess cruise ship, Yokohama Port, Japan, 20 January to 9 February …

T Yamagishi, H Kamiya, K Kakimoto… - …, 2020 - eurosurveillance.org
An outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) occurred on the Diamond Princess cruise
ship making an international journey, which led to quarantine of the ship at Yokohama Port …

Spatio-temporal modelling of routine health facility data for malaria risk micro-stratification in mainland Tanzania

SG Thawer, M Golumbeanu, S Lazaro, F Chacky… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
As malaria transmission declines, the need to monitor the heterogeneity of malaria risk at
finer scales becomes critical to guide community-based targeted interventions. Although …

Association between the proportion of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections detected by passive surveillance and the magnitude of the …

G Stresman, N Sepúlveda, K Fornace… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Passively collected malaria case data are the foundation for public health
decision making. However, because of population-level immunity, infections might not …

Relationships between test positivity rate, total laboratory confirmed cases of malaria, and malaria incidence in high burden settings of Uganda: an ecological analysis

J Okiring, A Epstein, JF Namuganga, V Kamya… - Malaria journal, 2021 - Springer
Background Malaria surveillance is critical for monitoring changes in malaria morbidity over
time. National Malaria Control Programmes often rely on surrogate measures of malaria …

[HTML][HTML] Practical implications of a relationship between health management information system and community cohort–based malaria incidence rates

SP Kigozi, E Giorgi, A Mpimbaza… - The American Journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Global malaria burden is reducing with effective control interventions, and surveillance is
vital to maintain progress. Health management information system (HMIS) data provide a …