Table 1.

Search terms combinations.

S/N	Search Terms
1	demographic health survey OR AIDS indicator survey OR malaria indicator survey OR multiple indicator cluster surveys OR health survey OR MIS OR DHS
2	sub-Sahara Africa OR SSA
3	logistic regression OR multilevel regression OR multinomial logistic OR random-effects OR hierarchical OR fixed effects OR Linear regression
4	Malaria OR fever OR plasmodium falciparum OR P. malariae OR P. ovale OR P. vivax)
5	1 AND 2 AND 3 AND 4