About the Authors

Abdisalan M. Noor

anoor@nairobi.kemri-wellcome.org

Affiliations Malaria Public Health Department, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Victor A. Alegana

Affiliation Malaria Public Health Department, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

Richard N. Kamwi

Affiliation Office of the Minister, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia

Clifford F. Hansford

Affiliation National Institute for Tropical Diseases, Tzaneen, South Africa

Benson Ntomwa

Affiliation National Vector-borne Diseases Control Programme, Directorate of Special Programmes, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia

Stark Katokele

Affiliation National Vector-borne Diseases Control Programme, Directorate of Special Programmes, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia

Robert W. Snow

Affiliations Malaria Public Health Department, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Abdisalan Mohamed Noor is an academic editor for both PLOS ONE and Guest Editor for PLOS Medicine. The authors confirm that this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials and the authors will share their data with interested researchers for academic, non-commercial research, including potentially those from Malaria Atlas Project.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMN RWS CFH RNK. Performed the experiments: AMN VAA RWS. Analyzed the data: AMN VAA RWS CFH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK RNK. Wrote the paper: AMN VAA CFH RNK BN SK RWS.