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. 2014 Jan 30:13:39.
doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-39.

Declining malaria in Africa: improving the measurement of progress

Peter W Gething  1 , Katherine E Battle, Samir Bhatt, David L Smith, Thomas P Eisele, Richard E Cibulskis, Simon I Hay
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Declining malaria in Africa: improving the measurement of progress

Peter W Gething et al. Malar J. .

Abstract

The dramatic escalation of malaria control activities in Africa since the year 2000 has increased the importance of accurate measurements of impact on malaria epidemiology and burden. This study presents a systematic review of the emerging published evidence base on trends in malaria risk in Africa and argues that more systematic, timely, and empirically-based approaches are urgently needed to track the rapidly evolving landscape of transmission.

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Figure 1
Geographical distribution of studies measuring changing malaria risk in Africa, shown overlaying a predicted surface of endemicity ( P. falciparum parasite rate, Pf PR)[9].
Figure 2
Figure 2
Histograms comparing the statistical distribution of predicted P. falciparum parasite rate (PfPR) across endemic Africa as a whole (grey), and within study sites representing measurements of changing malaria risk via any metric (red), cases (green), and deaths (blue). Frequency is measured by number of 5 × 5 km pixels.
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