Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Illegal mining expanded in the Brazilian Amazon since 2018, leading to increases in malaria among indigenous populations, particularly the Yanomami. We describe the temporal and spatial pattern of malaria and mining in indigenous lands and quantify the impact of mining on malaria among the Yanomami. We estimate that a 1% increase in the annual mining area was associated with a 24% (95% CrI: 17%, 32%) increase in monthly malaria cases in the Yanomami. Also, malaria cases in 2022 in the Yanomami were likely underreported by 83%, and an estimated excess of 102,870 malaria cases occurred from 2018 to 2023 due to increased mining activity (an additional cost to the public health system of approximately US$6.9 million). Rethinking and intensifying malaria control in Brazil is a matter of health, environmental, and indigenous justice.
Source: PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Language: English
Topic: Malaria Research and Control
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,670
Funders: Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Ministério da Saúde, National Institutes of Health, Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Awards: G1251551467, G1416128017, G17091616, FIOCRUZ - to develop innovative tools that will help diagnose malaria cases, control malaria transmission and improve effectiveness of malaria treatment in t..., G3364820047, G3542766663, Scientific bases for residual malaria elimination in the Brazilian Amazon, G4338429052, G4585836180, G4593687476, G4917902508, G571052359, G6642514559, G7313945640, G9000027010, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
OpenAlex ID: W4415819980