Older children under-five living in low incomes large families in rural areas are most vulnerable to malaria infection PLOSONE rural LMICs LMIC vulnerable malaria infection
By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaJun 5 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent study published in PLOS ONE, researchers assessed malaria prevalence among children aged six to 59.0 months.
Children, mainly those aged below five years, with exhausted maternal immune protection and lacking immunity against the malarial parasite, comprise the most vulnerable population. The study included 60,541 pediatric individuals aged six to 59.0 months living in SSA nations such as Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Guinea, Madagascar, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone. Data from the nationally representative and cross-sectional MIS conducted between 2015 and 2021 were analyzed.
Results In total, 74,976 guardians or parents were interviewed across the 13 SSA nations, among whom 38% and 45% of mothers who were not formally educated were classified in the poorer and poorest wealth quintiles, respectively. In addition, three or more children in a household aged below five years , improved floor, wall, and roof materials , ITN usage , absence of anemia , rural residence , increased community ITN usage , and increased community-level financial insufficiency showed strong associations with malaria.
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