Change in Malaria Prevalence among Children (%) 2000- 2015
Malaria, a life-threatening disease transmitted by mosquitoes, affects millions of people worldwide. Treatment and prevention efforts such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets and rapid diagnostic tests significantly decreased the number of malaria cases in Africa. This layer displays the change in malaria rates (%) from 2000 to 2015 among children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Malaria Atlas Project: https://map.ox.ac.uk/explorer/#/explorer
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2000-2015
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