Assessing the impact of the "malaria supporters project" intervention to malaria control in the Brazilian Amazon: an interrupted time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2021, Brazil was responsible for more than 25% of malaria cases in the Americas. Although the country has shown a reduction of cases in the last decades, in 2021 it reported over 139,000 malaria cases. One major malaria control strategy implemented in Brazil is the "Malaria Supporters Project", which has been active since 2012 and is directed to municipalities responsible for most Brazil's cases. The objective of this study is to analyse the intervention effect on the selected municipalities.

Methods

An ecological time-series analysis was conducted to assess the "Malaria Supporters Project" effect. The study used data on Annual Parasitic Incidence (API) spanning the period from 2003 to 2020 across 48 intervention municipalities and 88 control municipalities. To

SUBMITTER: Garcia KKS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10504781 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature