Malaria elimination in remote communities requires integration of malaria control activities into general health care: an observational study and interrupted time series analysis in Myanmar

Table 1 Malaria in the first year of community health worker operation in eight regions of Myanmar

Region	Programme started	P. falciparum		P. vivax
Region	Programme started	Positivity rate^a	Incidence^b	Positivity rate^a	Incidence^b
Chin	May 2016^c	22.6	14.7	4.3	2.8
Kachin	April 2014	0.6	0.1	0.8	0.2
Kayah	August 2014	1.3	0.3	3.9	0.8
Kayin	March 2012	11.7	5.3	16.9	7.7
Mon	September 2011	2.8	0.4	5.1	0.7
Rakhine	November 2016^c	1.0	0.1	0	0
Sagaing	March 2016^c	1.3	0.2	0.4	0.1
Tanintharyi	March 2014	0.1	0.04	0.2	0.1

^aPer 100 rapid diagnostic tests. ^bPer 1000 person months. ^cSummary data covers months from start date until December 2016

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