Epidemic malaria dynamics in Ethiopia: the role of self-limiting, poverty, HIV, climate change and human population growth.

Autor: Krsulovic FAM; Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. augustomaurin@gmail.com.; Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Santiago, Chile. augustomaurin@gmail.com., Moulton TP; Departamento de Ecologia, Faculdade de Ciéncias Biológicas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil., Lima M; Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.; Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Santiago, Chile., Jaksic F; Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.; Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Santiago, Chile.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Malaria journal [Malar J] 2022 Apr 27; Vol. 21 (1), pp. 135. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 27.
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-022-04161-2
Abstrakt: Background: During the last two decades, researchers have suggested that the changes of malaria cases in African highlands were driven by climate change. Recently, a study claimed that the malaria cases (Plasmodium falciparum) in Oromia (Ethiopia) were related to minimum temperature. Critics highlighted that other variables could be involved in the dynamics of the malaria. The literature mentions that beyond climate change, trends in malaria cases could be involved with HIV, human population size, poverty, investments in health control programmes, among others.
Methods: Population ecologists have developed a simple framework, which helps to explore the contributions of endogenous (density-dependent) and exogenous processes on population dynamics. Both processes may operate to determine the dynamic behaviour of a particular population through time. Briefly, density-dependent (endogenous process) occurs when the per capita population growth rate (R) is determined by the previous population size. An exogenous process occurs when some variable affects another but is not affected by the changes it causes. This study explores the dynamics of malaria cases (Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax) in Oromia region in Ethiopia and explores the interaction between minimum temperature, HIV, poverty, human population size and social instability.
Results: The results support that malaria dynamics showed signs of a negative endogenous process between R and malaria infectious class, and a weak evidence to support the climate change hypothesis.
Conclusion: Poverty, HIV, population size could interact to force malaria models parameters explaining the dynamics malaria observed at Ethiopia from 1985 to 2007.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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