- Name
- Malaria incidence per 1,000 population
- Indicator purpose
- Share of population who have been diagnosed with Malaria.
- Abstract
- This indicator measure trends in malaria morbidity and identify locations where the risk of disease is highest. With this information, programs can respond to unusual trends, such as epidemics, and direct resources to the populations most in need. This data also serves to inform global resource allocation for malaria such as when defining eligibility criteria for Global Fund finance.
- Contact organization / person
- Ministry of Health (MOH)
- Unit of measure
- Malaria incidence per 1,000 population.
- Other characteristics
- Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites. The parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes, called "malaria vectors." There are 5 parasite species that cause malaria in humans, and 2 of these species – P. falciparum and P. vivax – pose the greatest threat.
- Classification used
- Case of malaria is defined as the occurrence of malaria infection in a person whom the presence of malaria parasites in the blood has been confirmed by a diagnostic test. The population considered is the population at risk of the disease.
- Disaggregation
- The indicator is estimated at country level.
- Key statistical concepts
- The total number of new cases, T, is estimated from the number of malaria cases reported by a Ministry of Health. That is:
𝑇 = (a + (𝑐 × 𝑒) /𝑑) × (1 + ℎ / 𝑔 + ((1 − 𝑔 − ℎ) /2) /g)
Where:
a is malaria cases confirmed in public sector;
b is suspected cases tested;
c is presumed cases (not tested but treated as malaria);
d is reporting completeness;
e is test positivity rate (malaria positive fraction) = a/b;
f is cases in public sector, calculated by (a + (c x e))/d;
g is treatment seeking fraction in public sector;
h is treatment seeking fraction in private sector;
i is the fraction not seeking treatment, calculated by (1-g-h)/2;
j is cases in private sector, calculated by f x h/g;
k is cases not in private and not in public, calculated by f x i/g;
T is total cases, calculated by f + j + k.
- Recommended uses
- The Ministry of Health should create interventions or effectively scale-up existing interventions, which include early treatment of malaria cases.
- Other comments
- All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.
- Baseline
- 5 cases (2016)
- Target 2020
- Tuberculosis and malaria remain at low levels
- Target 2030
- Tuberculosis and malaria remain at low levels
