Title |
Finding malaria hot-spots in northern Angola: the role of individual, household and environmental factors within a meso-endemic area
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Published in |
Malaria Journal, November 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-11-385 |
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Authors |
Ricardo J Soares Magalhães, Antonio Langa, José Carlos Sousa-Figueiredo, Archie CA Clements, Susana Vaz Nery |
Abstract |
Identifying and targeting hyper-endemic communities within meso-endemic areas constitutes an important challenge in malaria control in endemic countries such like Angola. Recent national and global predictive maps of malaria allow the identification and quantification of the population at risk of malaria infection in Angola, but their small-scale accuracy is surrounded by large uncertainties. To observe the need to develop higher resolution malaria endemicity maps a predictive risk map of malaria infection for the municipality of Dande (a malaria endemic area in Northern Angola) was developed and compared to existing national and global maps, the role of individual, household and environmental risk factors for malaria endemicity was quantified and the spatial variation in the number of children at-risk of malaria was estimated. |
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