Detailed Malaria Mortality Mapping for Africa

In the past 15 years, the malaria death rate has decreased an estimated 57% across sub-Saharan Africa; artemisinin resistance could reverse this trend.

To produce estimates of malaria mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, investigators integrated spatial estimates of the prevalence of malaria infection and clinical incidence rates in the region since 2000, from the Malaria Atlas Project, with the Global Burden of Diseases Study (GBD). They created maps showing annual estimates of mortality directly attributed to malaria from 2000 through 2015 by age at a spatial resolution of 5 km². They did not include effects of malaria on other causes of death.

The estimated malaria death rate dropped by 57%, from 12.5 to 5.4 per 10,000 in the population, between 2000 and 2015. In 2015, malaria deaths were estimated at 631,000, and children younger than 5 years still had the highest rates of malaria and death…

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Mary E. Wilson, MD

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Consultant/Advisory BoardOneHealthTrust (formerly Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy); Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin

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Mary E. Wilson, MD

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Consultant/Advisory BoardOneHealthTrust (formerly Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy); Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin

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Detailed Malaria Mortality Mapping for Africa

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