Estimating malaria burden among pregnant women using data from antenatal care centres in Tanzania: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More timely estimates of malaria prevalence are needed to inform optimal control strategies and measure progress. Since 2014, Tanzania has implemented nationwide malaria screening for all pregnant women within the antenatal care system. We aimed to compare malaria test results during antenatal care to two population-based prevalence surveys in Tanzanian children aged 6-59 months to examine their potential in measuring malaria trends and progress towards elimination.

Methods

Malaria test results from pregnant women screened at their first antenatal care visits at health-care facilities (private and public) in all 184 districts of Tanzania between Jan 1, 2014, and Dec 31, 2017, were collected from the Health Management Information Systems and District Health Informa

SUBMITTER: Kitojo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8752309 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature