Malaria Atlas Project – Africa

We have produced the first ever empirical global map of P. falciparum risk using rigorous geo-statistical models of infection prevalence, remotely sensed proxies of climate and human settlement. Over 98% of the Plasmodium falciparum endemic world where transmission intensity exceeds 40% prevalence is located in Africa. Africa continues to bear the greatest global malaria disease burden. The MPHEG will continue to assemble temporally and spatially configured empirical information on malaria infection prevalence, intervention coverage and funding. We are now recognized by national malaria control partners in the region as able to undertake scientifically driven national sample survey investigations of infection risks and intervention coverage and the generation of serial, national survey data will enhance our capacities to model and map the changing epidemiology, populations-at-risk and unmet needs across Africa through to 2015.