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The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, September 2015
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Title
The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015
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Nature, September 2015
DOI 10.1038/nature15535
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S. Bhatt, D. J. Weiss, E. Cameron, D. Bisanzio, B. Mappin, U. Dalrymple, K. E. Battle, C. L. Moyes, A. Henry, P. A. Eckhoff, E. A. Wenger, O. Briët, M. A. Penny, T. A. Smith, A. Bennett, J. Yukich, T. P. Eisele, J. T. Griffin, C. A. Fergus, M. Lynch, F. Lindgren, J. M. Cohen, C. L. J. Murray, D. L. Smith, S. I. Hay, R. E. Cibulskis, P. W. Gething

Abstract

Since the year 2000, a concerted campaign against malaria has led to unprecedented levels of intervention coverage across sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the effect of this control effort is vital to inform future control planning. However, the effect of malaria interventions across the varied epidemiological settings of Africa remains poorly understood owing to the absence of reliable surveillance data and the simplistic approaches underlying current disease estimates. Here we link a large database of malaria field surveys with detailed reconstructions of changing intervention coverage to directly evaluate trends from 2000 to 2015, and quantify the attributable effect of malaria disease control efforts. We found that Plasmodium falciparum infection prevalence in endemic Africa halved and the incidence of clinical disease fell by 40% between 2000 and 2015. We estimate that interventions have averted 663 (542-753 credible interval) million clinical cases since 2000. Insecticide-treated nets, the most widespread intervention, were by far the largest contributor (68% of cases averted). Although still below target levels, current malaria interventions have substantially reduced malaria disease incidence across the continent. Increasing access to these interventions, and maintaining their effectiveness in the face of insecticide and drug resistance, should form a cornerstone of post-2015 control strategies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 12 <1%
United States 8 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Sudan 1 <1%
Mali 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Other 8 <1%
Unknown 2445 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 459 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 384 15%
Researcher 339 14%
Student > Bachelor 238 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 114 5%
Other 335 13%
Unknown 614 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 416 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 329 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 301 12%
Immunology and Microbiology 106 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 101 4%
Other 525 21%
Unknown 705 28%
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