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Table 1 Trends of uncomplicated and severe malaria cases in the North and Far North regions

From: A Bayesian spatio-temporal framework to assess the effect of seasonal malaria chemoprevention on children under 5 years in Cameroon from 2016 to 2021 using routine data

SMC intervention

Years

Groups

Suspected cases

Suspected cases tested

Testing rate

Uncomplicated malaria-confirmed cases

Severe malaria-confirmed cases

Uncomplicated malaria incidence (per 1000)

Severe malaria incidence (per 1000)

Before

2011

Comparison group

204,283

170,103

83.27

75,009

62,729

30.9

25.9

Intervention group

156,163

88,652

56.77

44,876

34,335

81.9

62.7

2012

Comparison group

209,102

211,641

100.00

86,201

71,616

35.0

29.1

Intervention group

141,653

127,167

89.77

50,177

35,808

90.5

64.6

2013

Comparison group

207,820

210,103

100.00

85,554

71,274

33.9

28.2

Intervention group

144,226

130,927

90.78

51,562

36,847

90.5

64.7

2014

Comparison group

116,664

113,659

97.42

49,685

45,406

18.6

16.9

Intervention group

173,797

171,998

98.96

77,444

70,999

128.3

117.7

2015

Comparison group

319,231

499,043

100.00

169,826

176,800

63.3

65.9

Intervention group

260,656

339,910

100.00

138,002

120,426

228.0

198.9

After

2016

Comparison group

260,922

454,633

100.00

128,474

140,339

48.1

52.5

Intervention group

170,362

249,148

100.00

80,042

68,815

132.8

114.2

2017

Comparison group

552,405

600,364

100.00

173,619

191,613

60.9

67.2

Intervention group

339,611

345,932

100.00

100,173

43,839

148.6

65.0

2018

Comparison group

637,433

621,564

97.51

188,467

229,044

66.1

80.3

Intervention group

409,832

381,857

93.17

119,585

87,201

177.2

129.2

2019

Comparison group

786,047

740,623

94.22

259,815

220,480

88.2

74.8

Intervention group

524,929

491,641

93.66

171,951

127,665

246.9

183.3

2020

Comparison group

882,318

819,678

92.90

302,655

266,330

97.5

85.8

Intervention group

568,087

534,179

94.03

203,222

166,532

271.7

222.6

2021

Comparison group

102,4769

978,413

95.48

384,969

263,890

119.6

81.9

Intervention group

692,150

653,581

94.43

259,328

192,999

340.4

253.3