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 …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of malaria parasitaemia in school-aged children and pregnant women in endemic settings of sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta …

G Makenga, S Menon, V Baraka, DTR Minja… - Parasite Epidemiology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite increased malaria control efforts, school-aged children (5–14 years) have higher a
malaria prevalence compared to children under-five. In high-transmission settings, up to …

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) …

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 …

Malaria elimination in India: bridging the gap between control and elimination

S Nema, P Ghanghoria, PK Bharti - Indian Pediatrics, 2020 - Springer
India observed a significant reduction in malaria cases in the previous year, reaffirming our
trust and efficiency of the existing tools to achieve malaria elimination. On 25 April, 2019 …

Near-term climate change impacts on sub-national malaria transmission

J Lubinda, U Haque, Y Bi, B Hamainza, AJ Moore - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The role of climate change on global malaria is often highlighted in World Health
Organisation reports. We modelled a Zambian socio-environmental dataset from 2000 to …

Detecting temporal and spatial malaria patterns from first antenatal care visits

A Pujol, N Brokhattingen, G Matambisso… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Pregnant women attending first antenatal care (ANC) visits represent a promising malaria
surveillance target in Sub-Saharan Africa. We assessed the spatio-temporal relationship …

Prospective surveillance study to detect antimalarial drug resistance, gene deletions of diagnostic relevance and genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum in …

A Mayor, C da Silva, E Rovira-Vallbona… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Genomic data constitute a valuable adjunct to routine surveillance that can
guide programmatic decisions to reduce the burden of infectious diseases. However …

Using antenatal care as a platform for malaria surveillance data collection: study protocol

JR Gutman, JN Mwesigwa, K Arnett, C Kangale… - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Background While many malaria-endemic countries have health management information
systems that can measure and report malaria trends in a timely manner, these routine …

Modelling the incremental benefit of introducing malaria screening strategies to antenatal care in Africa

PGT Walker, M Cairns, H Slater, J Gutman… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum in pregnancy is a major cause of adverse pregnancy outcomes. We
combine performance estimates of standard rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) from trials of …