<i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> parasite prevalence in East Africa: Updating data for malaria stratification.

ABSTRACT: The High Burden High Impact (HBHI) strategy for malaria encourages countries to use multiple sources of available data to define the sub-national vulnerabilities to malaria risk, including parasite prevalence. Here, a modelled estimate of Plasmodium falciparum from an updated assembly of community parasite survey data in Kenya, mainland Tanzania, and Uganda is presented and used to provide a more contemporary understanding of the sub-national malaria prevalence stratification across the sub-region for 2019. Malaria prevalence data from surveys undertaken between January 2010 and June 2020 were assembled form each of the three countries. Bayesian spatiotemporal model-based approaches were used to interpolate space-time data at fine spatial resolution adjusting for population, environ

SUBMITTER: Alegana VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7612417 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature