The receptive versus current risks of Plasmodium falciparumtransmission in Northern Namibia: implications for elimination

Table 1 The 2010 population count at different Pf PR _2-10 receptive (maximum mean for 1969–1989) and current (2009) endemicities in the nine northern regions of Namibia

	<1% PfPR_2-10		1% to <5% PfPR_2-10		5% to 10% PfPR_2-10		>10% to 50% PfPR_2-10		Total 2010 population
Region	Receptive	Current	Receptive	Current	Receptive	Current	Receptive	Current
Caprivi	0	0	0	82,099	4,310	0	77,789	0	82,099
Kavango	0	0	0	157,351	42,869	0	114,481	0	157,351
Kunene	33,950	0	30,885	11,297	1,250	54,231	557	0	66,084
Ohangwena	0	4,811	0	242,556	148,259	0	99,109	0	247,368
Omaheke	64,978	0	30,471	49,795	1	45,656	0	0	95,450
Omusati	0	0	156,743	213,860	99,841	44,569	1,844	0	258,429
Oshana	0	2,046	82,300	144,266	64,116	104	0	0	146,416
Oshikoto	0	0	36,867	179,083	135,759	0	6,456	0	179,083
Otjozondjupa	26,025	0	122,117	100,448	14,885	65,268	2,689	0	165,716
Total	124,953	6,857	459,383	1,180,754	511,291	209,827	302,926	0	1,397,995

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