Trends in reported malaria cases and the effects of malaria control in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Filippo Lechthaler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Zollikofen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland

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• Barbara Matthys ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: barbara.matthys@swisstph.ch

  Affiliations Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6275-1753

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• Giulia Lechthaler-Felber,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland

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• Joris Losimba Likwela,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Soins de Santé en Milieu Rural (non-profit organization SANRU), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Hypolite Muhindo Mavoko,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tropical Medicine Department, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Junior Matangila Rika,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tropical Medicine Department, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Meschac Mutombo Mutombo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Malaria Control Program, Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Laura Ruckstuhl,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Basel, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland, Epidemiology and Public Health Department, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland

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• Joanna Barczyk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

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• Estifanos Shargie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

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• Helen Prytherch,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland

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• Christian Lengeler

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Basel, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland, Epidemiology and Public Health Department, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Canton of Basel Stadt, Switzerland

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