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Mapping the travel patterns of people with malaria in Bangladesh

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2020-03-04

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Article

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17417015

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10.1186/s12916-020-1512-5

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2-s2.0-85080974917

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Mahidol University

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BMC Medicine. Vol.18, No.1 (2020)

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Ipsita Sinha, Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Didar Uddin, Amy Wesolowski, Sazid Ibna Zaman, M. Abul Faiz, Aniruddha Ghose, M. Ridwanur Rahman, Akramul Islam, Mohammad Jahirul Karim, Anjan Saha, M. Kamar Rezwan, Abul Khair Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, Sanya Tahmina Jhora, M. M. Aktaruzzaman, Hsiao Han Chang, Olivo Miotto, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Arjen M. Dondorp, Nicholas P.J. Day, M. Amir Hossain, Caroline Buckee, Richard J. Maude Mapping the travel patterns of people with malaria in Bangladesh. BMC Medicine. Vol.18, No.1 (2020). doi:10.1186/s12916-020-1512-5 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/53730

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Mapping the travel patterns of people with malaria in Bangladesh

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Ipsita Sinha
 Abdullah Abu Sayeed
 Didar Uddin
 Amy Wesolowski
 Sazid Ibna Zaman
 M. Abul Faiz
 Aniruddha Ghose
 M. Ridwanur Rahman
 Akramul Islam
 Mohammad Jahirul Karim
 Anjan Saha
 M. Kamar Rezwan
 Abul Khair Mohammad Shamsuzzaman
 Sanya Tahmina Jhora
 M. M. Aktaruzzaman
 Hsiao Han Chang
 Olivo Miotto
 Dominic Kwiatkowski
 Arjen M. Dondorp
 Nicholas P.J. Day
 M. Amir Hossain
 Caroline Buckee
 Richard J. Maude

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
 University of Oxford
 Mahidol University
 Chittagong Medical College Hospital
 Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
 Wellcome Sanger Institute
 Filariasis Elimination
 National Malaria Elimination Programme
 Dev Care Foundation
 Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College
 BRAC Centre
 Directorate General of Health Services

Abstract

© 2020 The Author(s). Background: Spread of malaria and antimalarial resistance through human movement present major threats to current goals to eliminate the disease. Bordering the Greater Mekong Subregion, southeast Bangladesh is a potentially important route of spread to India and beyond, but information on travel patterns in this area are lacking. Methods: Using a standardised short survey tool, 2090 patients with malaria were interviewed at 57 study sites in 2015-2016 about their demographics and travel patterns in the preceding 2 months. Results: Most travel was in the south of the study region between Cox's Bazar district (coastal region) to forested areas in Bandarban (31% by days and 45% by nights), forming a source-sink route. Less than 1% of travel reported was between the north and south forested areas of the study area. Farmers (21%) and students (19%) were the top two occupations recorded, with 67 and 47% reporting travel to the forest respectively. Males aged 25-49 years accounted for 43% of cases visiting forests but only 24% of the study population. Children did not travel. Women, forest dwellers and farmers did not travel beyond union boundaries. Military personnel travelled the furthest especially to remote forested areas. Conclusions: The approach demonstrated here provides a framework for identifying key traveller groups and their origins and destinations of travel in combination with knowledge of local epidemiology to inform malaria control and elimination efforts. Working with the NMEP, the findings were used to derive a set of policy recommendations to guide targeting of interventions for elimination.

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Medicine

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