Table 1.

Reported malaria cases, diagnostic tests and treatment regimens by year at health care facilities in Mutasa District, 2003 – 2011

Year		2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011*
Number of reporting health care facilities		24	27	28	29	31	31	31	31	31
Reported number of suspected malaria cases	Total	31,782	50,630	62,933	79,994	74,226	101,531	73,619	61,607	50,798
	< 5 years	7,974	12,464	13,948	15,611	15,812	22,978	14,991	12,035	12,476
	≥ 5 years	23,808	38,166	48,985	64,383	58,414	78,553	58,628	49,572	38,322
Proportion of suspected malaria cases by age category	< 5 years	25%	25%	22%	20%	21%	23%	20%	20%	25%
	≥ 5 years	75%	75%	78%	80%	79%	77%	80%	80%	75%
Reported number of diagnostic tests performed	Microscopy	324	187	796	850	22	9	46	0	0
	RDT	0	0	704	702	11996	65868	62912	50717	39207
Proportion of suspected malaria cases tested by RTD		0%	0%	1%	1%	16%	65%	85%	82%	77%
Reported number of RDT positive malaria cases	Total	0	0	328	322	6561	50462	44326	32641	28098
	< 5 years	0	0	124	50	1098	13788	8565	5471	5631
	≥ 5 years	0	0	204	272	5463	36674	35761	27170	22467
Proportion of suspected malaria cases confirmed by RDT	Total	0%	0%	47%	46%	55%	77%	70%	64%	72%
	< 5 years	0%	0%	41%	58%	53%	78%	73%	58%	57%
	≥ 5 years	0%	0%	51%	44%	55%	76%	70%	66%	77%
Reported number of treated cases by drug regimen	Total	31,782	51,630	62,933	79,994	74,226	101,531	73,619	61,607	50,798
	CQ	20,151	15,838	18,886	20,129	19,320	13,924	0	0	0
	CQ + S/P	11,631	35,792	44,047	59,865	41,764	2,955	344	0	0
	ACT	0	0	0	0	13,142	84,652	73,275	61,607	50,798
Reported number of non-malaria cases	Total	114,148	143,130	171,116	163,153	171,630	162,524	177,578	184,396	96,826
	< 5 years	24,962	30,791	36,919	29,773	28,170	46,325	58,464	65,515	34,501
	≥ 5 years	89,186	112,339	134,197	133,380	143,460	116,199	119,114	118,881	62,325
Proportion of suspected malaria cases of all clinic cases	< 5 years	24 %	29%	27%	34%	36%	33%	20%	16%	27%
	≥ 5 years	21%	25%	27%	33%	29%	40%	33%	29%	38%

* First quarter only.