The association between gold mining and malaria in Guyana: a statistical inference and time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guyana reported a significant rise in malaria between 2008 and 2014. As there was no evidence of impairment of national malaria control strategies, public health authorities attributed the surge to a temporal increase in gold mining activity in forested regions. However, systematic analysis of this association is lacking because of the difficulties associated with collecting reliable data for both malaria and mining. We aimed to investigate the association between the international gold price and Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission in Guyana between 2007 and 2019. We also aimed to evaluate the association between P falciparum cases and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation pattern, which has previously been suggested as a major driver of malaria.

Methods

We used

SUBMITTER: De Salazar PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8515511 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature