Retrospective Analysis of Malaria Cases in Selected Higher Education Institutions in Morogoro Municipality, Eastern Tanzania

Mbogo N. Kija^1, , Sharadhuli I. Kimera² and Ladslaus L. Mnyone^{3, 4}

¹Epidemiologist, Department of Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3015, Morogoro, Tanzania

²Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology & Infectious Diseases, Sokoine University of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, P.O. Box 3021, Morogoro, Tanzania

³Professor of Entomology, Institute of Pest Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3110, Morogoro, Tanzania

⁴Division of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, P.O. Box 10, Dodoma, Tanzania

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Mbogo N. Kija, Sharadhuli I. Kimera and Ladslaus L. Mnyone. Retrospective Analysis of Malaria Cases in Selected Higher Education Institutions in Morogoro Municipality, Eastern Tanzania. American Journal of Public Health Research. 2022; 10(3):98-105. doi: 10.12691/AJPHR-10-3-2

Abstract

The malaria transmission is largely dictated by climatic, topographic and ecological factors that vary widely from one area or cluster to the other, and to some extent we are lacking some basic background information on malaria especially in higher education institutions within Tanzania. Therefore, a need for more refined area specific interventions that would better consider the past record of malaria data for scrutinizing the disease trend so as to be in a position to act accordingly towards malaria elimination. A retrospective study was conducted to determine a ten-year (2011 – 2020) trend on malaria prevalence based on patients who were attended from a catchment health facility in each institution. We used only malaria cases data diagnosed using either microscopy and/or malaria rapid diagnostic test (mRDT). A binary logistic regression test was significant for the test variables at p < 0.05 and the results showed that; males were likely to be malaria positive by 3.3 percent less compared to females, dry season by 2.6 percent less compared to wet season, Jordan by 2.3 times more than SUA and Mzumbe by 17.8% less as compared to SUA. Overall, SUA had many positive case (n= 27 320) followed by Mzumbe (n= 23 690) and Jordan (n= 14 959). The overall trend of malaria positive cases seemed to decrease starting from 2017 onwards thou the observed prevalence (34.1%) is far high when compared to the national prevalence of 9.5% reported in 2017. Thus, we would recommend for the institutions to have a clear medical record system regarding student’s health status for timely and appropriate decision making.

Keywords

retrospective malaria data, Jordan, Mzumbe and Sokoine Universities

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