Five-Year Trend of Malaria Prevalence in Mojo Town, Central Ethiopia: Shifting Burden of the Disease and Its Implication for Malaria Elimination: A Retrospective Study

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Figure 1 Physical location of Mojo town.

Table 1 Prevalence and Annual Trends of Malaria Cases in Mojo Health Center from 2016 to 2020

Variables	Category	Blood Films Examined	Number of Malaria Cases (%)	Plasmodium Species
				P. falciparum (%)	P. vivax (%)	Mixed (%)
Sex	Male	8699	514(64.8)	104(20.2)	405(78.8)	5(1.0)
	Female	10,407	279(35.2)	77(27.6)	199(71.3)	3(1.1)
Age (years)	<5	3208	59(7.4)	19(32.2)	40(67.8)	0(0.0)
	5–14	2302	107(13.5)	25(23.4)	82(76.6)	0(0.0)
	15–24	5747	296(37.3)	64(21.6)	229(77.4)	3(1.0)
	25–34	4237	211(26.6)	48(22.7)	159(75.4)	4(1.9)
	≥35	3612	120(15.1)	25(20.8)	94(78.3)	1(0.8)
Year	2016	3965	259(32.7)	43(16.6)	214(82.6)	2(0.8)
	2017	4443	236(29.8)	64(27.1)	171(72.5)	1(0.4)
	2018	4671	117(14.8)	35(29.9)	79(67.5)	3(2.6)
	2019	4550	104(13.1)	24(23.1)	78(75.0)	2(1.9)
	2020	1477	77(9.7)	15(19.5)	62(80.5)	0(0.0)

Figure 2 Annual trends of malaria prevalence in Mojo Health Center from 2016 to 2020.

Figure 3 Annual trend of malaria cases by sex in Mojo Health Center from 2016 to 2020.

Figure 4 Annual trend of malaria cases by age in Mojo Health Center from 2016 to 2020.

Figure 5 Trend of malaria prevalence with Plasmodium species and month in Mojo Health Center from 2016 to 2020.

Figure 6 Seasonal profile of P. vivax, P. falciparum and mixed infections in Mojo Health Center from 2016 to 2020.