Demographic and health community-based surveys to inform a malaria elimination project in Magude district, southern Mozambique.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A Demographic and Health Platform was established in Magude in 2015, prior to the deployment of a project aiming to evaluate the feasibility of malaria elimination in southern Mozambique, named the Magude project. This platform aimed to inform the design, implementation and evaluation of the Magude project, through the identification of households and population; and the collection of demographic, health and malaria information.

Setting

Magude is a rural district of southern Mozambique which borders South Africa. It has nine peripheral health facilities and one referral health centre with an inpatient ward.

Intervention

A baseline census enumerated and geolocated all the households, and their resident and non-resident members, collecting demographic and soc

SUBMITTER: Galatas B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7228537 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature