Estimating the potential public health impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in African children

Cairns, Matthew, Roca-Feltrer, Arantxa, Garske, Tini, Wilson, Anne L., Diallo, Diadier, Milligan, Paul J., Ghani, Azra C and Greenwood, Brian M. (2012) 'Estimating the potential public health impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in African children'. Nature Communications, Vol 3, p. 881.

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Abstract

Seasonal malaria chemoprevention, previously known as intermittent preventive treatment in children, is highly effective in areas with a short malaria transmission season. Here we assess seasonality in malaria incidence data and define a predictor of seasonality based on rainfall. We then use spatial rainfall, malaria endemicity and population data to identify areas likely to have highly seasonal malaria incidence, and estimate the population at risk and malaria burden in areas where seasonal malaria chemoprevention would be appropriate. We estimate that in areas suitable for seasonal malaria chemoprevention, there are 39 million children under 5 years of age, who experience 33.7 million malaria episodes and 152,000 childhood deaths from malaria each year. The majority of this burden occurs in the Sahelian or sub-Sahelian regions of Africa. Our data suggest that seasonal malaria chemoprevention has the potential to avert several million malaria cases and tens of thousands of childhood deaths each year if successfully delivered to the populations at risk.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 108 Preventive health services. Preventive medicine. Travel Medicine. WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 750 Malaria WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 765 Prevention and control WS Pediatrics > WS 20 Research (General)
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1879
Depositing User:	Lynn Roberts-Maloney
Date Deposited:	12 Dec 2014 11:47
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2018 11:18
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/4654

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