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DHS6 Malaria Prevalence.

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Malaria prevalence in children and in women from the sixth Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey (2019-20). This is the older DHS round, five years earlier than every other DHS table the portal publishes, which is why it is a dataset of its own rather than folded into child health: a stale round should never be served beside a current one without the row saying so. Every row carries survey_round DHS6 and reference_period 2019/20. The finding is as much methodological as epidemiological: rapid diagnostic tests found malaria in three times as many children as microscopy confirmed, 2.7% against 0.9%, and in women 1.2% against 0.5%. RDT detects residual antigen after an infection has cleared, so it reads higher; microscopy is the stricter confirmation. Both are published, because choosing one would quote a number without saying which test produced it. 8 indicators, each naming its population and its test, broken down one dimension at a time. Source is tables 12.14 and 12.16 of the DHS6 Final Report; the machine-readable copies are fetched from the RISA Data Sharing Platform (data.gov.rw).

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Rapid tests found malaria in three times as many Rwandan children as microscopy confirmed: 2.7% against 0.9%.

Malaria prevalence in children, by test · percent · DHS6, 2019-20

SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda · DHS6 Malaria Prevalence (irregular) · Updated 2026-08-14
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imibare contributors. (2026). DHS6 Malaria Prevalence [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-14. https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.nisr.dhs-malaria.irregular