Data-driven malaria prevalence prediction in large densely populated urban holoendemic sub-Saharan West Africa.

ABSTRACT: Over 200 million malaria cases globally lead to half-million deaths annually. The development of malaria prevalence prediction systems to support malaria care pathways has been hindered by lack of data, a tendency towards universal "monolithic" models (one-size-fits-all-regions) and a focus on long lead time predictions. Current systems do not provide short-term local predictions at an accuracy suitable for deployment in clinical practice. Here we show a data-driven approach that reliably produces one-month-ahead prevalence prediction within a densely populated all-year-round malaria metropolis of over 3.5 million inhabitants situated in Nigeria which has one of the largest global burdens of P. falciparum malaria. We estimate one-month-ahead prevalence in a unique 22-years prospective regi

SUBMITTER: Brown BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7522256 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature