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New High-Resolution Mapping Reveals Where Malaria Persists in Senegal 

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Répondez à notre enquête de satisfaction et contribuez à façonner la suite Researchers have developed a powerful new way to track malaria with pinpoint accuracy, providing a vital tool for health officials to save lives in low- and middle-income countries. An international team, including WorldPop’s Dr Chris Nnanatu, has created high-resolution maps that reveal the […]

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How AI and Data of Population Dynamics Could Help Eliminate Malaria

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Artificial intelligence is already reshaping fields like finance, transportation, and medicine. Now it is being deployed against one of humanity’s oldest and deadliest diseases: malaria.  With funding provided by the Web Science Institute, WorldPop is applying its AI and spatial demography and epidemiology expertise to a

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Maps showing cluster level estimates of proportions of children aged 12-23 months and 9-35 months who had received DTP1 and MCV1, respectively, obtained using the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey.

Smarter Maps, Healthier Lives: New Study Reveals Best Tools to Target Vaccine Gaps

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How do we find out where vaccines aren’t reaching people – especially in places with limited data? A new study led by Dr Edson Utazi at WorldPop, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, has evaluated how different statistical and machine learning methods perform in mapping vaccination coverage at high resolution.

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Maps showing predicted malaria prevalence in children under five and number of infected children in regions of very low to moderate transmission in Senegal (excluding Dakar for visibility purposes).

New Study Maps Malaria Risk in Senegal by Blending Environment and Vulnerability 

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Senegal is pushing to eliminate malaria by 2030, and a new study could help target the fight more precisely. Researchers at the University of Namur, Belgium, the University of Ghana and WorldPop at the University of Southampton have developed a powerful new way to map malaria risk across the country by integrating both environmental “hazards”

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The WorldPop research programme, based in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton, is a multi-sectoral team of researchers, technicians and project specialists that produces data on population distributions and characteristics at high spatial resolution.

Initiated in October 2013 to combine The AfriPop Project, AsiaPop and AmeriPop projects, we have a diverse portfolio of projects, including large multi-million-pound collaborative projects with partner organisations, commercial data providers and international development organisations.

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