These findings highlight the importance of incorporating human mobility, particularly seasonal labour migration, into malaria transmission models and control strategies. From a global health perspective, accounting for mobility-driven persistence mechanisms can strengthen malaria elimination programs across Sub-Saharan Africa, where seasonal migration is widespread. By integrating migration dynamics into intervention planning, policymakers can better anticipate epidemic risk and target resources to vulnerable communities, thereby moving closer to the long-term goal of malaria elimination.
Harikripal et al. (Wed,) studied this question.