Ten years of monitoring malaria trend and factors associated with malaria test positivity rates in Lower Moshi.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High altitude settings in Eastern Africa have been reported to experience increased malaria burden due to vector habitat expansion. This study explored possible associations between malaria test positivity rates and its predictors including malaria control measures and meteorological factors at a high-altitude, low malaria transmission setting, south of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Methods

Malaria cases reported at the Tanganyika Plantation Company (TPC) hospital's malaria registers, meteorological data recorded at TPC sugar factory and data on bed nets distributed in Lower Moshi from 2009 to 2018 were studied. Correlation between bed nets distributed and malaria test positivity rates were explored by using Pearson correlation analysis and the associations between malaria t

SUBMITTER: Kassam NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8056660 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature