Climate change and the dynamics of age-related malaria incidence in Southern Africa

In the last decade, many malaria-endemic countries, like Zambia, have achieved significant reductions in malaria incidence among children <5 years old but face ongoing challenges achieving similar progress against older age groups. parts of changing climatic and environmental factors are those suspectedly behind high incidence. Changes variations these potentially interfere with intervention program effectiveness alter distribution patterns differentially between young rest population. We used parametric non-parametric statistics to model effects socio-demographic variables on age-specific vis-à-vis control interventions. Linear regressions, mixed models, Mann-Kendall tests were implemented explore trends, changes regress variables. Our study shows that while climate parameters affect whole population, their impacts felt most by people aged ≥5 years. Climate influenced substantially more than mosquito nets indoor residual spraying establish negatively impact efforts exacerbating transmission conditions via conducive temperature rainfall environments, which augmented cultural socioeconomic exposure mechanisms. argue an intensified communications education strategy for behavioural change specifically targeted at population where rates increasing, is urgently required call further stratification groups routine collection, analysis reporting mortality data.