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dc.contributor.author | Diouf, Ibrahima![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Adeola, Abiodun M.![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Abiodun, Gbenga J.![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Lennard, Christopher![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Shirinde, Joyce![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Yaka, Pascal![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Ndione, Jacques‑Andre![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Gbobaniyi, Emiola O.![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-08T05:26:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-08T05:26:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-02 | |
dc.description.abstract | Understanding the regional impact of future climate change is one of the major global challenges of this century. This study investigated possible effects of climate change on malaria in West Africa in the near future (2006–2035) and the far future (2036–2065) under two representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5), compared to an observed evaluation period (1981–2010). Projected rainfall and temperature were obtained from the coordinated regional downscaling experiment (CORDEX) simulations of the Rossby Centre Regional Atmospheric regional climate model (RCA4). The malaria model used is the Liverpool malaria model (LMM), a dynamical malaria model driven by daily time series of rainfall and temperature obtained from the CORDEX data. Our results highlight the unimodal shape of the malaria prevalence distribution, and the seasonal malaria transmission contrast is closely linked to the latitudinal variation of the rainfall. Projections showed that the mean annual malaria prevalence would decrease in both climatological periods under both RCPs but with a larger magnitude of decreasing under the RCP8.5. We found that the mean malaria prevalence for the reference period is greater than the projected prevalence for 6 of the 8 downscaled GCMs. The study enhances understanding of how malaria is impacted under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 emission scenarios. These results indicate that the southern area of West Africa is at most risk of epidemics, and the malaria control programs need extra effort and help to make the best use of available resources by stakeholders. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology | en_US |
dc.description.department | School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) | en_US |
dc.description.department | UP Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP CSMC) | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | am2023 | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The CORDEX project. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://link.springer.com/journal/704 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Diouf, I., Adeola, A.M, Abiodun, G.J. et al. 2022, 'Impact of future climate change on malaria in West Africa', Theoretical and Applied Climatology, vol. 147, pp. 853-865, doi : 10.1007/s00704-021-03807-6. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0177-798X (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1434-4483 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1007/s00704-021-03807-6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/90016 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | en_US |
dc.subject | Climate change | en_US |
dc.subject | Malaria | en_US |
dc.subject | Risk | en_US |
dc.subject | West Africa | en_US |
dc.title | Impact of future climate change on malaria in West Africa | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |