WHO statistics show that nearly 300 million people suffer from malaria on a yearly basis and over a million of them die from it. Statistically, every 40 seconds one child of all children in the world dies from malaria. In Africa, almost 90 percent of all recorded deaths are caused by ...
Following the last major malaria epidemic in 2000, malaria incidence in South Africa has declined markedly. The decrease has been so emphatic that South Africa now meets the World Health Organization (WHO) threshold for malaria elimination. Given the Millennium Development Goal of reversing the spread...
The World Malaria Day falls on April 25. This year's event is themed "Zero malaria death starts with me." Statistics from South Africa's National Department of Health show that 91 percent of malaria cases globally occur in Africa. According to the World Health Organization, there were an es...
Several countries in Southeast Asia are nearing malaria elimination, yet eradication remains elusive. This is largely due to the challenge of focusing elimination efforts, an area where risk prediction can play an essential supporting role. Despite its i
Initially, a descriptive statistics analysis encompassed bar plots for demographic groups; namely, children under the age of 5 years, males above 5 years, and females above 5 years. The bar plots in Fig. 1 provide a visual representation of the absolute number of reported malaria cases within ...
A second team member double-checked data entry by comparing the questionnaires and the data entered in Microsoft Excel. The cleaned data set was imported to STATA version 16 for analysis. Descriptive statistics were calculated for binary, categorical, and continuous variables. Logistic regression was ...
These situations remain rare but are worrying if resistance were to settle in Africa, as the continent has the highest rate of malaria cases worldwide. No clinical failure with artesunate has been reported in malaria cases observed in Africa (the main area of origin of imported cases in France...
Nigeria is a country located in the western part of sub-Saharan Africa. The country is composed of 36 geopolitical regions, which include 36 states and one federal capital territory [18]. The country is divided into North Central, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, South and Southwest regions, ea...
There was variation in the cost analysis in terms of the components investigated, source of costs (household or healthcare system), unit of measurement (cost per episode, per household, or per capita), and summary statistics (mean or median). Cost estimates based on household data were the ...