The research aimed to quantify spatial accessibility to immunizing health facilities and determine its influence on immunization uptake in Kenya while controlling for potential confounders. Poor access to immunization services remains a major barrier to achieving equity and expanding vaccination coverage in many sub-Saharan African countries. In Kenya, the extent to which spatial access affects […]

Malaria transmission is influenced by climate, land use and deliberate intervention. The study provides quantitative data coThe study shows disparities in the utilization of ANC at sub-county and county level. Sub-counties in the Northern and North-Eastern regions had the lowest utilisation of ANC4. Only twenty sub-counties had ANC4 attendance of over 70% while 18 had […]

Malaria transmission is influenced by climate, land use and deliberate intervention. The study provides quantitative data comprising 50,424 surveys at 36,966 geocoded locations to cover 115 years (1900 – 2015) of malaria history in sub-Saharan Africa. The results show that the African continent has witnessed a long-term decline in the prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum from […]

The study assessed the incidence of pediatric severe malaria admissions from 13 hospitals in East Africa from 2006 to 2020. From figure 4, the median fit for the Bayesian regression model is denoted by the thick black line, with 95% and 99% highest density intervals in dark and light blue, respectively. Grey points and vertical […]

The research sought to understand the age patterns of disease which is important to consider in targeting interventions. It helps maximize cost-effective impacts e.g. in the new malaria chemoprevention and vaccine initiatives that target young children attending routine immunization services. The study explored the relationships between age and severity of malaria hospitalization versus malaria transmission […]