Estimating the Number of Malaria Cases in Africa and their Age Distribution

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In most of sub-Saharan Africa; estimates of the burden of disease due to malaria are unreliable as many people with fever do not reach public health facilities; and there are also imperfect health reporting systems in many of the countries with the largest burden. However; many general population studies exist recording the proportion of people with detectable malaria parasites. Researchers at the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) have collated these datasets and fitted geo-spatial models to them; providing an estimate of parasite prevalence at any location along with the uncertainty in that estimate