Burundi

In order to investigate whether the persistently high incidence of malaria in Burundi is due to a lack of knowledge of the disease, mothers of children admitted to the hospital of Kiremba in Burundi were anonymously administered a semi-structured questionnaire about malaria.

These findings represent one of the most extensive reports on malaria among refugees in post-emergency sites.

In this paper, semiparametric models are used to model the effects of both climatic covariates and spatial effects on malaria distribution in Burundi.

The results obtained from the proposed models are discussed and it is found that malaria incidence in a given month in Burundi is strongly positively associated with the minimum temperature of the previous month. In contrast, it is found that rainfall and maximum temperature in a given month have a possible negative effect on malaria incidence of the same month.