Table 1. Reasons for exclusion.

Reason for exclusion	Number of studies
Lacks information on intervention or no intervention	208
No distinction of different time-points of the surveys	56
No distinction of species across time	52
One species not detected or not reported	13
Imprecise because data is for the whole country	7
Same data as another study that is already used	6
Not outcome of interest	6
Looks at epidemics	4
Issues with disentangling intervention effect	5
Very low prevalence of P. falciparum	1
Excluded relapses of vivax from cases	1
Imported cases	1
Total	360