Malaria Survey in Rural Villages of Anger Gute Area of Gida Ayana District, Western Ethiopia |Biomedgrid

Background: Active malaria detection is required, for efficient identification of malaria cases or clusters of cases to eliminate malaria. Objective of this study was to explore prevalence of asymptomatic parasite carriage and active malaria cases among rural residents of Anger Gute area. Methods: Community based cross-sectional survey was done among 413 individuals of two villages of Anger Gute area from 14 to 29, August 2020. Malaria infection was screened using RDT from finger-prick blood specimens. Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 20.0 and descriptive statistics was done using logistic regression. P values of less or equal to 0.05 were considered significant.