Meeting report of the WHO Evidence Review Group on malaria burden estimation methods

Overview

On 12–14 March 2018, the WHO Global Malaria Programme (GMP) and the Information, Evidence and Research (IER) departments convened the first meeting of the Evidence Review Group on malaria burden estimation methods.  The objectives of the meeting were to provide advice to WHO GMP on the criteria for the use of routine data from sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between treatment-seeking for any fever, as used in routine reports of malaria data, and treatment-seeking for malaria fever, the data available to best quantify CFRs for Pf and Pv across different transmission and case management settings, routine data estimates used for sub-Saharan African countries, the definition of populations at risk to compute incidence from case estimates, and the best approaches for quantifying the severe and indirect burden of malaria.