Table 2.

Studies and surveillance reports included in the analysis that were from areas in southern Africa categorized as having high-intensity malaria transmission

Country and sitea	Time period	Age group	Malaria deaths	Person-time (person-years)	Malaria mortality rates (deaths per 1000 per year)
Hlabisa, South Africa	1987–90	All ages	9	150 218	0.0599
Ubombo, South Africa	1987–90	All ages	17	164 274	0.1035
Ingwavuma, South Africa	1987–90	All ages	25	211 161	0.1184
7 malarious districts, Botswana	1988–94	All ages	405	2 496 172	0.1622
Southern District, Namibia	1992–96	All ages	79	1 896 789	0.0416
Central District, Namibia	1992–96	All ages	115	1 214 125	0.0947
North Eastern District, Namibia	1992–96	All ages	526	1 133 340	0.4641
North Western District, Namibia	1992–96	All ages	690	3 462 498	0.1993
Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe	1997	All ages	409	1 819 338	0.2248
Mashona Central Province, Zimbabwe	1997	All ages	153	1 021 976	0.1497
Mashona East Province, Zimbabwe	1997	All ages	274	1 208 733	0.2267
Mashona West Province, Zimbabwe	1997	All ages	108	1 314 909	0.0821
Matabele North Province, Zimbabwe	1997	All ages	251	759 032	0.3307
Matabele South Province, Zimbabwe	1997	All ages	32	694 907	0.0460
Midlands Province, Zimbabwe	1997	All ages	70	1 552 593	0.0451
Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe	1997	All ages	196	1 453 557	0.1348
Agincourt, South Africa	1992–95	0–4 years	2	20 800	0.0962
Total			3361	20 574 422	0.163 (95% CI 0.113–0.214)

^aThe reference for the study in Agincourt, South Africa is Kahn et al.⁵⁸ All other results were from reports that were summarized on a Malaria Burden of Disease in Africa data collection pro forma (RW Snow, personal communication, March 31, 2004