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No evidence of decline in malaria burden from 2006 to 2013 in a rural Province of Gabon: implications for public health policy

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Title
No evidence of decline in malaria burden from 2006 to 2013 in a rural Province of Gabon: implications for public health policy
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BMC Public Health, February 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1456-4
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Vanessa Assele, Gildas Ella Ndoh, Dieudonné Nkoghe, Thierry Fandeur

Abstract

BackgroundThe morbidity of malaria has steady declined in the urban regions of Gabon between 2000 and 2008, but caution should be exercised before generalizing this trend to the whole country because this finding has not been systematically confirmed in remote rural provinces.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective survey using data on malaria cases recorded in North Eastern Gabon between 2006 and 2013 at health facilities in Makokou. Malaria data were analyzed, and associations with annual variations and patient age were assessed.ResultsA global increase in clinical and confirmed malaria cases was observed over the study period. The rate of infection was significantly higher in children aged between 0 to 4 years than in children of 5 years and above, and in adults. Contrary to prior observations in urban and semi-urban areas of Gabon, malaria burden remained mostly unchanged or even increased in Makokou in the Ogooué-Ivindo province during these last 8 years.ConclusionsThe persistence of Plasmodium falciparum pockets of sustained malaria transmission in rural Gabon may be related to an inadequate coverage of key interventions, to poor treatment seeking behavior and/or to a decline efficacy of treatments. Our results highlight the need to better adapt malaria control strategies to local epidemiological contexts and to environmental constraints. Equitable delivery of health service to hard-to-reach populations constitutes a challenging issue for the health authorities of Gabon.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 90 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 23%
Researcher 16 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 16%
Other 4 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 4%
Other 16 17%
Unknown 17 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 28%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 12%
Social Sciences 9 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 4%
Other 13 14%
Unknown 23 25%
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