Analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the implementation of activities of the malaria control program, from January 2020 to June 2021 in the Haut-Katanga province in the DRC
Mots-clés :
Covid – 19, malaria, impact, activities, Lubumbashi, DRCRésumé
Malaria is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in many developing countries, including ours, where young children and pregnant women are the most affected groups. The objective is to analyze the harmful impact of Covid-19 on the implementation of malaria control activities in Haut Katanga from January 2020 to June 2021.
Methods
This is a cross-sectional descriptive study carried out in the HGR (Hakika and Kenya). The population studied is represented by patients who consulted for malaria and were treated in the two health facilities. The collected data were encoded in Excel 2013 then exported to Epi Info 7 version 7.2.26 software for analysis.
Results
The preventive component shows that more LLINs were distributed in the first half of 2020 in Kenya and the first half of 2021 in Hakika, and fewer in the first half of 2021 in Kenya and the first half of 2020 in Hakika; a low percentage of positive RDTs in H1 2020 in Hakika (15.8%) and Kenya (21.8%) than in the first half of 2021 in Hakika (8.5%) and Kenya (14.9%); as well as the percentage of children aged 6 to 59 months who had a malaria infection was lower in the first half of 2021 in Kenya (22.4%) and in the first half of 2020 in Hakika (16.5%).
Conclusion
Our study shows that the occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic negatively hinders the implementation of malaria control activities in the Haut Katanga province.
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