Eliminating malaria by 2040 among agricultural households in Africa: potential impact on health, labor productivity, education and gender equality.

ABSTRACT: Background: Ambitious goals have been set to eradicate malaria by the year 2040. Given the high poverty levels and the intense levels of malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, suppressing malaria in rural agricultural communities in these regions will be one of the greatest challenges to achieving malaria eradication. This study has two objectives. The first is to estimate how eradicating malaria by 2040 would affect agricultural households in sub-Saharan Africa. The second is to identify where additional research is needed to develop better estimates of how eradicating malaria by 2040 would affect those households. Methods: Using agricultural census data and malaria morbidity data, we developed estimates of the number of malaria cases in 2018 among agricultural households with fewer

SUBMITTER: Willis DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6266653 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature