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Integrating mobility, travel survey, and malaria case data to understand drivers of malaria importation to Zanzibar, 2022-2023

2025-06-05 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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BackgroundZanzibar has achieved historic reductions in malaria incidence, but high connectivity to mainland Tanzania and imported cases remain a challenge to "last mile" malaria elimination. MethodsTo understand factors driving malaria importation, we collected travel histories and demographics of malaria cases presenting to 94 health facilities across Zanzibars main island, Unguja, from 2022-2023. We also analyzed population mobility data--self-reported travel at the outbound Dar es Salaam fer...

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