Extending the reach of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Sub-Saharan Africa: A microplanning model to improve door-to-door health service delivery

2020-09-23 public and global health Title + abstract only

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BackgroundMalaria incidence has plateaued in Sub-Saharan Africa despite Seasonal Malaria Chemopreventions introduction. Community health workers use a door-to-door delivery strategy to treat children with SMC drugs, but for SMC to be as effective as in clinical trials, coverage must be high over successive seasons. MethodsWe developed and used a microplanning model that utilizes raster to estimate population size, generates optimal households visit itinerary, and quantifies SMC coverage based ...