Do socio-demographic factors modify the effect of weather on malaria in Kanungu District, Uganda?

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Socio-economic and health differences between Bakiga and Indigenous Batwa populations (adapted from MacVicar et al. 2017a [21])

Health and socio-economic measure	Batwa (proportion of the population (%))	Bakiga (proportion of the population (%))
Malaria prevalence among adult ^a	6.45	4.46
Moderate acute malnutrition among adult women^b	45.86	0.42
Household mosquito net use (did not have nets)^c	70.99	53.56
Access to handwashing facilities (did not have access to handwashing)^d	73.85	56.40
Access to soap (did not have access to soap)^e	73.85	56.40

^aPrevalence of positive malaria antigen detection test in both July 2013 and April 2014—survey of all Batwa adults, sample of Bakiga adults[2]
^bClassified as moderately malnourished according to the Uganda ministry of health integrated management of acute malnutrition guidelines)[22]
^c[2]
^d,eOnly asked of people that had access to hand washing facility, for example for the Batwa, 32 or 94% of the households that had access to handwashing had access to soap[2]

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