Mapping Plasmodium falciparum Mortality in Africa between 1990 and 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria control has not been routinely informed by the assessment of subnational variation in malaria deaths. We combined data from the Malaria Atlas Project and the Global Burden of Disease Study to estimate malaria mortality across sub-Saharan Africa on a grid of 5 km² from 1990 through 2015.

Methods

We estimated malaria mortality using a spatiotemporal modeling framework of geolocated data (i.e., with known latitude and longitude) on the clinical incidence of malaria, coverage of antimalarial drug treatment, case fatality rate, and population distribution according to age.

Results

Across sub-Saharan Africa during the past 15 years, we estimated that there was an overall decrease of 57% (95% uncertainty interval, 46 to 65) in the rate of malari

SUBMITTER: Gething PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5484406 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature