Background Routine malaria surveillance data in Africa primarily come from public health
facilities reporting to national health management information systems. Although information …

Malaria still represents one of the most debilitating and deadly diseases in the world. It has
been suggested that malaria has different impacts on women and men due to both social …

Methods: Both routine reporting of presumptive, clinically diagnosed malaria in out-patient
clinics and results from a longitudinal household survey are used in the analysis. In the …

Background Studies of malaria in well-defined cohorts offer important data about the
epidemiology of this complex disease, but few have been done in urban African populations …

Background The thinking behind malaria research and control strategies stems largely from
experience gained in rural areas and needs to be adapted to the urban environment …

Background Although malaria disease in urban and peri-urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa
is a growing concern, the epidemiologic patterns and drivers of transmission in these …

Background The malaria burden in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has fallen substantially.
Nevertheless, malaria remains a serious health concern, and Uganda ranks third in SSA in …

Background Malaria is a leading cause of disease burden in Uganda, although surprisingly
few contemporary, age-stratified data exist on malaria epidemiology in the country. This …

Background The use of malaria infection prevalence among febrile patients at clinics has a
potential to be a valuable epidemiological surveillance tool. However, routine data are …

The patterns of malaria morbidity and mortality can vary with the level of malaria
transmission in a given area. We carried out two annual cross-sectional surveys in the …