The number of prevalence surveys identified by year and region in Africa, 1985–2012.

Map of Africa illustrating the emergence of CQ resistance in East, Central and West Africa detected through travellers’ surveillance from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

Myriam Gharbi (478082)
Jennifer A. Flegg (371326)
Bruno Pradines (274004)
Ako Berenger (478083)
Magatte Ndiaye (478084)
Abdoulaye A. Djimdé (2227663)
Cally Roper (80274)
Véronique Hubert (465009)
Eric Kendjo (386908)
Meera Venkatesan (478085)
Philippe Brasseur (39099)
Oumar Gaye (32489)
André T. Offianan (478086)
Louis Penali (478087)
Jacques Le Bras (80270)
Philippe J. Guérin (2227666)
Members of the French National Reference Center for Imported Malaria Study (478088)

October 2013

The dates of detection of index cases are displayed. The red arrows show the spread of antimalari...

Trends in public health emergencies in the WHO African Region: an analysis of the past two decades public health events from 2001 to 2022

Joseph Okeibunor
George Sie Williams
Abdou Salam Gueye
Etien Luc Koua
Jobert Richie Nansseu Njingang
Jean Paul Kimenyi
Sakuya Oka

October 2023

The African Region reports the heaviest burden of public health emergencies globally. This paper pre...

Global and regional trends in caesarean section, 1990–2014.

Ana Pilar Betrán (2155669)
Jianfeng Ye (125878)
Anne-Beth Moller (2155666)
Jun Zhang (48506)
A. Metin Gülmezoglu (142912)
Maria Regina Torloni (232492)

February 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa includes Eastern, Middle, Southern and Western Africa subregions. For the purp...

Proportion of districts surveyed by population based prevalence surveys between 1985 and 2012 in Africa.

Jennifer L. Smith (231095)
Rebecca M. Flueckiger (443598)
Pamela J. Hooper (247958)
Sarah Polack (332101)
Elizabeth A. Cromwell (219060)
Stephanie L. Palmer (443599)
Paul M. Emerson (43378)
David C. W. Mabey (168760)
Anthony W. Solomon (146301)
Danny Haddad (172095)
Simon J. Brooker (139017)

August 2013

Bar plots exclude non-endemic areas from the denominator where information on suspected endemicit...

prevalence maps in Fig. 1. This represents an increase in the

Chris Simms

January 2007

Between the early 1980s and 2000 the prevalence rateof HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa increased...

Empirical prevalence of A) trachomatous inflammation–follicular (TF) and B) trachomatous trichiasis (TT) and C) areas of suspected and presumed endemicity in Africa between 1985–2012.

Jennifer L. Smith (231095)
Rebecca M. Flueckiger (443598)
Pamela J. Hooper (247958)
Sarah Polack (332101)
Elizabeth A. Cromwell (219060)
Stephanie L. Palmer (443599)
Paul M. Emerson (43378)
David C. W. Mabey (168760)
Anthony W. Solomon (146301)
Danny Haddad (172095)
Simon J. Brooker (139017)

August 2013

Population based prevalence surveys generated data for 1095 districts and 24 regions, while TRA s...

Changes in the spatial distribution of the under-five mortality rate: Small-area analysis of 122 DHS surveys in 262 subregions of 35 countries in Africa

Zehang Li (6250745)
Yuan Hsiao (6250748)
Jessica Godwin (5197415)
Bryan D. Martin (5008730)
Jon Wakefield (162318)
Samuel J. Clark (394646)

January 2019

The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is a critical and widely available population health indicator....

Changes in HIV Prevalence among men and women aged 15–24 years with different levels of educational attainment between earlier (2003–5) and later (2008–12) nationally-representative population-based surveys in seven sub-Saharan African countries.

James R. Hargreaves (461187)
Calum Davey (470763)
Elizabeth Fearon (470764)
Bernadette Hensen (353725)
Shari Krishnaratne (707153)

March 2015

Changes in HIV Prevalence among men and women aged 15–24 years with different levels of education...

Changes in the spatial distribution of the under-five mortality rate: Small-area analysis of 122 DHS surveys in 262 subregions of 35 countries in Africa.

Zehang Li
Yuan Hsiao
Jessica Godwin
Bryan D Martin
Jon Wakefield
Samuel J Clark
with support from the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and its technical advisory group

January 2019

The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is a critical and widely available population health indicator....

Trends in key health facility indicators reflecting availability of malaria diagnostics and ACTs in Kenya: results of six national surveys between 2010 and 2013 (each bar corresponds to a different survey).

Dejan Zurovac (111092)
Sophie Githinji (288137)
Dorothy Memusi (288139)
Samuel Kigen (541763)
Beatrice Machini (541764)
Alex Muturi (344531)
Gabriel Otieno (541765)
Robert W. Snow (91290)
Andrew Nyandigisi (288140)

March 2014

Trends in key health facility indicators reflecting availability of malaria diagnostics and ACTs ...

Measuring the Magnitude of HIV in Africa

Emily Oster

January 2006

This paper presents a new methodology for estimating HIV prevalence in Africa. I use mortality data ...

Mapping Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS): a method to estimate regional trends of a proportion

Larmarange, Joseph

August 2013

International audienceFor many countries, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, Demographic and Healt...

Endemicity in 2007

Hay Simon I
Guerra Carlos A
Gething Peter W
Patil Anand P
Tatem Andrew J
Noor Abdisalan M
Kabaria Caroline W
Manh Bui H
Elyazar Iqbal R. F
Brooker Simon
Smith David L
Moyeed Rana A
Snow Robert W

March 2009

malaria endemicity for the year 2007. ≥ 40%) areas. High endemicity was widespread in the Africa+ r...

Mapping HIV prevalence in Africa for a better understanding of epidemics : example from Burkina Faso using 2003 demographic and health survey data

Larmarange, Joseph
Vallo, Roselyne
Yaro, Seydou
Msellati, Philippe
Meda, Nicolas
Ferry, Benoît

July 2010

BackgroundsSince 2001, several Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) include HIV testing. We develope...

Five decades of infectious diseases outbreaks in the African region (1970–2018) a geographic snapshot

Roland Ngom
Abdou Salam Gueye
Stephanie Lassieur
Stephen Oloo
Rizwan Shahid
Valerie Mize
Charles Lukoya Okot
Joseph Cabore Waogodo
Ibrahima Socé Fall

January 2023

This paper is being written at a time when the recent pandemic, namely COVID-19, has shaken the enti...

Map of Africa illustrating the emergence of CQ resistance in East, Central and West Africa detected through travellers’ surveillance from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

Myriam Gharbi (478082)
Jennifer A. Flegg (371326)
Bruno Pradines (274004)
Ako Berenger (478083)
Magatte Ndiaye (478084)
Abdoulaye A. Djimdé (2227663)
Cally Roper (80274)
Véronique Hubert (465009)
Eric Kendjo (386908)
Meera Venkatesan (478085)
Philippe Brasseur (39099)
Oumar Gaye (32489)
André T. Offianan (478086)
Louis Penali (478087)
Jacques Le Bras (80270)
Philippe J. Guérin (2227666)
Members of the French National Reference Center for Imported Malaria Study (478088)

October 2013

The dates of detection of index cases are displayed. The red arrows show the spread of antimalari...

Trends in public health emergencies in the WHO African Region: an analysis of the past two decades public health events from 2001 to 2022

Joseph Okeibunor
George Sie Williams
Abdou Salam Gueye
Etien Luc Koua
Jobert Richie Nansseu Njingang
Jean Paul Kimenyi
Sakuya Oka

October 2023

The African Region reports the heaviest burden of public health emergencies globally. This paper pre...

Global and regional trends in caesarean section, 1990–2014.

Ana Pilar Betrán (2155669)
Jianfeng Ye (125878)
Anne-Beth Moller (2155666)
Jun Zhang (48506)
A. Metin Gülmezoglu (142912)
Maria Regina Torloni (232492)

February 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa includes Eastern, Middle, Southern and Western Africa subregions. For the purp...

Proportion of districts surveyed by population based prevalence surveys between 1985 and 2012 in Africa.

Jennifer L. Smith (231095)
Rebecca M. Flueckiger (443598)
Pamela J. Hooper (247958)
Sarah Polack (332101)
Elizabeth A. Cromwell (219060)
Stephanie L. Palmer (443599)
Paul M. Emerson (43378)
David C. W. Mabey (168760)
Anthony W. Solomon (146301)
Danny Haddad (172095)
Simon J. Brooker (139017)

August 2013

Bar plots exclude non-endemic areas from the denominator where information on suspected endemicit...

prevalence maps in Fig. 1. This represents an increase in the

Chris Simms

January 2007

Between the early 1980s and 2000 the prevalence rateof HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa increased...

Empirical prevalence of A) trachomatous inflammation–follicular (TF) and B) trachomatous trichiasis (TT) and C) areas of suspected and presumed endemicity in Africa between 1985–2012.

Jennifer L. Smith (231095)
Rebecca M. Flueckiger (443598)
Pamela J. Hooper (247958)
Sarah Polack (332101)
Elizabeth A. Cromwell (219060)
Stephanie L. Palmer (443599)
Paul M. Emerson (43378)
David C. W. Mabey (168760)
Anthony W. Solomon (146301)
Danny Haddad (172095)
Simon J. Brooker (139017)

August 2013

Population based prevalence surveys generated data for 1095 districts and 24 regions, while TRA s...

Changes in the spatial distribution of the under-five mortality rate: Small-area analysis of 122 DHS surveys in 262 subregions of 35 countries in Africa

Zehang Li (6250745)
Yuan Hsiao (6250748)
Jessica Godwin (5197415)
Bryan D. Martin (5008730)
Jon Wakefield (162318)
Samuel J. Clark (394646)

January 2019

The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is a critical and widely available population health indicator....

Changes in HIV Prevalence among men and women aged 15–24 years with different levels of educational attainment between earlier (2003–5) and later (2008–12) nationally-representative population-based surveys in seven sub-Saharan African countries.

James R. Hargreaves (461187)
Calum Davey (470763)
Elizabeth Fearon (470764)
Bernadette Hensen (353725)
Shari Krishnaratne (707153)

March 2015

Changes in HIV Prevalence among men and women aged 15–24 years with different levels of education...

Changes in the spatial distribution of the under-five mortality rate: Small-area analysis of 122 DHS surveys in 262 subregions of 35 countries in Africa.

Zehang Li
Yuan Hsiao
Jessica Godwin
Bryan D Martin
Jon Wakefield
Samuel J Clark
with support from the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and its technical advisory group

January 2019

The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is a critical and widely available population health indicator....

Trends in key health facility indicators reflecting availability of malaria diagnostics and ACTs in Kenya: results of six national surveys between 2010 and 2013 (each bar corresponds to a different survey).

Dejan Zurovac (111092)
Sophie Githinji (288137)
Dorothy Memusi (288139)
Samuel Kigen (541763)
Beatrice Machini (541764)
Alex Muturi (344531)
Gabriel Otieno (541765)
Robert W. Snow (91290)
Andrew Nyandigisi (288140)

March 2014

Trends in key health facility indicators reflecting availability of malaria diagnostics and ACTs ...

Measuring the Magnitude of HIV in Africa

Emily Oster

January 2006

This paper presents a new methodology for estimating HIV prevalence in Africa. I use mortality data ...

Mapping Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS): a method to estimate regional trends of a proportion

Larmarange, Joseph

August 2013

International audienceFor many countries, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, Demographic and Healt...

Endemicity in 2007

Hay Simon I
Guerra Carlos A
Gething Peter W
Patil Anand P
Tatem Andrew J
Noor Abdisalan M
Kabaria Caroline W
Manh Bui H
Elyazar Iqbal R. F
Brooker Simon
Smith David L
Moyeed Rana A
Snow Robert W

March 2009

malaria endemicity for the year 2007. ≥ 40%) areas. High endemicity was widespread in the Africa+ r...

Mapping HIV prevalence in Africa for a better understanding of epidemics : example from Burkina Faso using 2003 demographic and health survey data

Larmarange, Joseph
Vallo, Roselyne
Yaro, Seydou
Msellati, Philippe
Meda, Nicolas
Ferry, Benoît

July 2010

BackgroundsSince 2001, several Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) include HIV testing. We develope...

Five decades of infectious diseases outbreaks in the African region (1970–2018) a geographic snapshot

Roland Ngom
Abdou Salam Gueye
Stephanie Lassieur
Stephen Oloo
Rizwan Shahid
Valerie Mize
Charles Lukoya Okot
Joseph Cabore Waogodo
Ibrahima Socé Fall

January 2023

This paper is being written at a time when the recent pandemic, namely COVID-19, has shaken the enti...

Map of Africa illustrating the emergence of CQ resistance in East, Central and West Africa detected through travellers’ surveillance from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

Myriam Gharbi (478082)
Jennifer A. Flegg (371326)
Bruno Pradines (274004)
Ako Berenger (478083)
Magatte Ndiaye (478084)
Abdoulaye A. Djimdé (2227663)
Cally Roper (80274)
Véronique Hubert (465009)
Eric Kendjo (386908)
Meera Venkatesan (478085)
Philippe Brasseur (39099)
Oumar Gaye (32489)
André T. Offianan (478086)
Louis Penali (478087)
Jacques Le Bras (80270)
Philippe J. Guérin (2227666)
Members of the French National Reference Center for Imported Malaria Study (478088)

October 2013

The dates of detection of index cases are displayed. The red arrows show the spread of antimalari...

Trends in public health emergencies in the WHO African Region: an analysis of the past two decades public health events from 2001 to 2022

Joseph Okeibunor
George Sie Williams
Abdou Salam Gueye
Etien Luc Koua
Jobert Richie Nansseu Njingang
Jean Paul Kimenyi
Sakuya Oka

October 2023

The African Region reports the heaviest burden of public health emergencies globally. This paper pre...

Global and regional trends in caesarean section, 1990–2014.

Ana Pilar Betrán (2155669)
Jianfeng Ye (125878)
Anne-Beth Moller (2155666)
Jun Zhang (48506)
A. Metin Gülmezoglu (142912)
Maria Regina Torloni (232492)

February 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa includes Eastern, Middle, Southern and Western Africa subregions. For the purp...

The number of prevalence surveys identified by year and region in Africa, 1985–2012.

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The number of prevalence surveys identified by year and region in Africa, 1985–2012.

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