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From: Malaria mapping: understanding the global endemicity of falciparum and vivax malaria

Fig. 2

Growth in the availability of georeferenced data on Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate. The data shown here represent the assembly for sub-Saharan Africa maintained by the Malaria Atlas Project, with an individual ‘point’ representing a spatially and temporally unique observation of community-level infection prevalence. The search methodology used to acquire the published literature and personal communication data points is described in detail elsewhere [67], and the household survey data points are collated from the sources described above and additional reports from national malaria control programmes. The reduced numbers in 2013 and 2014 are to be expected due to the lag time between data collection and its subsequent release

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