Temporal changes in malaria burden in Kenya, Uganda and Malawi

This study was supported by Wellcome Trust for 12 months with thse specific objectives; 1) To retrospectively assess changes in the basic epidemiology and rates of paediatric admissions to Kenyan, Ugandan and Malawian hospitals over 15 years, and 2) to provide a plausibility framework to compare changing in-patient malaria burdens with endemicity-specific differences in intervention coverage

 The study found that in 4 out of 5 sites, there was a significant increase in malaria admission rates.