The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015.

ABSTRACT: Since the year 2000, a concerted campaign against malaria has led to unprecedented levels of intervention coverage across sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the effect of this control effort is vital to inform future control planning. However, the effect of malaria interventions across the varied epidemiological settings of Africa remains poorly understood owing to the absence of reliable surveillance data and the simplistic approaches underlying current disease estimates. Here we link a large database of malaria field surveys with detailed reconstructions of changing intervention coverage to directly evaluate trends from 2000 to 2015, and quantify the attributable effect of malaria disease control efforts. We found that Plasmodium falciparum infection prevalence in endemic Africa halved an

SUBMITTER: Bhatt S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4820050 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature