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Fine-scale hotspots detection is crucial for optimum delivery of essential health-services for reducing severe malaria in pregnancy (MiP) and death cases in Burkina Faso. This study used hierarchical-Bayesian Spatio-temporal modeling to explore space-time patterns and pinpoint health-districts with an exceedance probability of severe MiP incidence and fatality rate. Study also assessed effect of health-district service delivery (readiness) on severe-MiP outcomes. Severe-MiP fatality rate declined considerably while its incidence rate remained unchanged between January-2013 and December-2018. Severe-MiP cases persisted throughout the year with peaks between August and November. These peaks increased 2.5-fold the fatality rate. Furthermore, severe-MiP fatality was higher in health-districts classified as low-readiness (IRR = 2.469, 95%CrI: 1.632-3.738). However, the fatality rate decreased significantly with proper coverage with three doses for intermittent-preventive-treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine. Severe-MiP burden was heterogeneous spatially and temporally. The study suggested that health-programs should increase health-districts readiness and optimize resource allocation in high burden areas and months.

Original publication

DOI

10.1016/j.sste.2020.100333

Type

Journal

Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology

Publication Date

06/2020

Volume

33

Addresses

Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, 42, Avenue Kumda-Yonre, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, 11 BP 218 Ouaga CMS 11, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Centre d'Epidémiologie, Biostatistique et Recherche Clinique, Ecole de Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Route de Lennik, 808 B-1070, Bruxelles, Belgique. Electronic address: rouambatoussaint@gmail.com.