Simulating the council-specific impact of anti-malaria interventions: A tool to support malaria strategic planning in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The decision-making process for malaria control and elimination strategies has become more challenging. Interventions need to be targeted at council level to allow for changing malaria epidemiology and an increase in the number of possible interventions. Models of malaria dynamics can support this process by simulating potential impacts of multiple interventions in different settings and determining appropriate packages of interventions for meeting specific expected targets.

Methods

The OpenMalaria model of malaria dynamics was calibrated for all 184 councils in mainland Tanzania using data from malaria indicator surveys, school parasitaemia surveys, entomological surveillance, and vector control deployment data. The simulations were run for different transmissi

SUBMITTER: Runge M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7029840 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature