ACREME Webinar 18 July 2024

Join the Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination (ACREME) at webinars.

“Estimating the burden of severe malaria in children, sub-Saharan Africa 2015 to 2024 " with Dr Annie Browne.

Plasmodium falciparum malaria is as a key cause of morbidity and mortality in children under five in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Whilst extensive knowledge and robust models of malaria prevalence and incidence exist, very little is known about the burden of severe malaria. To quantify the burden of severe malaria in children under 5 years of age in SSA we have identified multiple data sources and combined these in a spatial-temporal modelling framework to estimate the proportion of malaria cases with severe malaria. These estimates are applied to the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) estimates of clinical malaria cases to calculate the overall numbers of severe malaria cases in children under five in SSA for 2015-2024, at a 5x5 km pixel resolution. I will discuss the data, development of the modelling framework, and preliminary results.

“Sub-national and sub-annual coverage of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Africa 2012-2023 " with Dr Adam Saddler.

The use of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) to prevent malaria in children has expanded rapidly since it was recommended for use by the WHO in 2012. SMC has been shown to be highly effective at reducing malaria incidence in control trials and observational studies, suggesting that the rapid scale up of SMC will have important implications for the burden of malaria. To quantify this impact and adequately incorporate SMC when mapping and predicting burden, detailed information on the spatiotemporal intervention coverage of SMC will be required. In this presentation, I will discuss the different types of SMC coverage data available and the steps we have taken to combine them and produce standardised coverage measures of SMC across the African continent.

Recordings will be available on the ACREME website.