Mapping the travel patterns of people with malaria in Bangladesh.
Ipsita SinhaAbdullah Abu SayeedDidar UddinAmy WesolowskiSazid Ibna ZamanM Abul FaizAniruddha GhoseM Ridwanur RahmanAkramul IslamMohammad Jahirul KarimAnjan SahaM Kamar RezwanAbul Khair Mohammad ShamsuzzamanSanya Tahmina JhoraM M AktaruzzamanHsiao-Han ChangOlivo MiottoDominic KwiatkowskiArjen M DondorpNicholas P J DayM Amir HossainCaroline BuckeeRichard J MaudePublished in: BMC medicine (2020)
The approach demonstrated here provides a framework for identifying key traveller groups and their origins and destinations of travel in combination with knowledge of local epidemiology to inform malaria control and elimination efforts. Working with the NMEP, the findings were used to derive a set of policy recommendations to guide targeting of interventions for elimination.