The potential of pregnant women as a sentinel population for malaria surveillance
Published in Malaria Journal, 2020
Brunner, N.C., Chacky, F., Mandike, R., Mohamed, A., Runge, M., Thawer, S.G., Ross, A., Vounatsou, P., Lengeler, C., Molteni, F., Hetzel, M.W., 2019. The potential of pregnant women as a sentinel population for malaria surveillance. Malaria Journal 18, 370. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2999-0 https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-019-2999-0
Pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) have been proposed as a pragmatic sentinel population for malaria surveillance. However, the representativeness of routine ANC malaria test-positivity and its relationship with prevalence in other population subgroups are yet to be investigated. Download paper here