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

ABSTRACT:

Background

While many malaria-endemic countries have health management information systems that can measure and report malaria trends in a timely manner, these routine systems have limitations. Periodic community cross-sectional household surveys are used to estimate malaria prevalence and intervention coverage but lack geographic granularity and are resource intensive. Incorporating malaria testing for all women at their first antenatal care (ANC) visit (i.e., ANC1) could provide a more timely and granular source of data for monitoring trends in malaria burden and intervention coverage. This article describes a protocol designed to assess if ANC-based surveillance could be a pragmatic tool to monitor malaria.

Methods

This is an observational, cross-sectional study conducted

SUBMITTER: Gutman JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022568 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature