Background Malaria risk can vary markedly between households in the same village, or
between villages, but the determinants of this “micro-epidemiological” variation in malaria …

Background Botswana significantly reduced its malaria burden between 2000 and 2012.
Incidence dropped from 0.99 to 0.01% and deaths attributed to malaria declined from 12 to …

Background Slash and burn cultivators are a significant risk group for malaria in South-East
Asia. As envisaged in the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination, Bangladesh aims …

Background The WHO has reported that RDT and microscopy-confirmed malaria cases
have declined in recent years. However, it is still unclear if this reflects a real decrease in …

Background Urban malaria is considered to be one of the most significant infectious
diseases due to varied socioeconomic problems especially in tropical countries like India …

Background Despite being one of the world's most affected regions, only little is known
about the social and spatial distributions of malaria in Indonesian Papua. Existing studies …

Background Malaria is endemic in 13 of 64 districts of Bangladesh, representing a
population at risk of about 27 million people. The highest rates of malaria in Bangladesh …

Abstract Background The indigenous Batwa of southwestern Uganda are among the most
highly impoverished populations in Uganda, yet there is negligible research on the …

Background Namibia is one of the countries among the eight that are targeting malaria
elimination in southern Africa. However, the country has encountered malaria epidemics in …

Background Identifying and targeting hyper-endemic communities within meso-endemic
areas constitutes an important challenge in malaria control in endemic countries such like …