Using transportability methods to map the local effectiveness of mass drug administration for malaria in Senegal
Roh, M. E.; Tong, Y.; Barratt Heitmann, G. R.; Ba, E.-H. K. C.; Ndiaye, J. L. A.; Fogelson, A.; Milligan, P. J.; Seck, A.; Diallo, A.; Lo, A. C.; Baiocchi, M.; Gosling, R.; Bennett, A.; Hsiang, M. S.; Benjamin-Chung, J.
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Numerous trials have evaluated the effectiveness of mass drug administration (MDA) to rapidly reduce malaria transmission, but it is unknown whether estimated effects generalize to other populations eligible for MDA. A recent cluster-randomized trial in Senegal found that MDA reduced malaria incidence by 55% in areas routinely deploying seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC). Here, we used transportability models with machine learning to generalize trial effects to 116 non-trial Communes where SMC is standard-of-care. Accounting for differences in weather, vegetation, and population density between trial and non-trial areas, we estimated significant reductions in incidence of 36%-65% in 74 non-trial Communes, with larger reductions in areas with higher precipitation, denser vegetation, and lower temperatures. We found that MDA was not effective in the post-intervention year in non-trial Communes, supporting the notion that MDA effects are short-lived. Our approach offers a scalable framework for generalizing trial findings to target environmentally-mediated infectious disease interventions.
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