For children with fever, the proportion taken for treatment across Africa, Asia and Latin America has increased significantly in the last 30 years from 61% to 71%, but "significant gaps" in access to healthcare remain (IMAGE)

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For children with fever, the proportion taken for treatment across Africa, Asia and Latin America has increased significantly in the last 30 years from 61% to 71%, but "significant gaps" in access to healthcare remain

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Country-level any medical treatment-seeking rates. Maps showing estimated any medical treatment-seeking rates in 1990 (top panel), 2020 (middle panel), and the absolute change in any medical treatment-seeking rates between 1990 and 2020 (bottom panel). Global national shapefile obtained from the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP; https://malariaatlas.org/) and available for download through the malariaAtlas R package.

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Nguyen et al., 2023, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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