Malaria Elimination Campaigns in the Lake Kariba Region of Zambia: A Spatial Dynamical Model.

ABSTRACT: As more regions approach malaria elimination, understanding how different interventions interact to reduce transmission becomes critical. The Lake Kariba area of Southern Province, Zambia, is part of a multi-country elimination effort and presents a particular challenge as it is an interconnected region of variable transmission intensities. In 2012-13, six rounds of mass test-and-treat drug campaigns were carried out in the Lake Kariba region. A spatial dynamical model of malaria transmission in the Lake Kariba area, with transmission and climate modeled at the village scale, was calibrated to the 2012-13 prevalence survey data, with case management rates, insecticide-treated net usage, and drug campaign coverage informed by surveillance. The model captured the spatio-temporal trends of de

SUBMITTER: Nikolov M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5120780 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature