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Using non-exceedance probabilities of policy-relevant malaria prevalence thresholds to identify areas of low transmission in Somalia.

Emanuele GiorgiAli Abdirahman OsmanAbdikarin Hussein HassanAbdi Abdillahi AliFaisa IbrahimJamal G H AmranAbdisalan M NoorRobert W Snow
Published in: Malaria journal (2018)
Unlike standard approaches, non-exceedance probabilities of spatially modelled PfPR2-10 allow to quantify uncertainty of prevalence estimates in relation to policy relevant intervention thresholds, providing programmatically relevant metrics to make decisions on transitioning from sustained malaria control to strategies that encompass methods of malaria elimination.
Keyphrases
  • plasmodium falciparum
  • public health
  • healthcare
  • risk factors
  • randomized controlled trial
  • mental health