Uganda Malaria Surveillance Programme
Enhanced health facility-based surveillance across 42 active Malaria Reference Centers, generating data to guide evidence-based malaria control.
Active and Prior MRCs
The Uganda Malaria Surveillance Programme (UMSP) was established in 2006 to collect high-quality malaria surveillance data at government-run health centers. These Malaria Reference Centers (MRCs) are Level III and IV health centers that generally see 1,000–3,000 outpatients per month. At each MRC, individual-level data from standardized MOH outpatient department registers are entered into an electronic database by on-site data officers, quality controlled, and compiled monthly by IDRC in Kampala.
UMSP collects data at two levels: the facility level (all outpatients presenting to each MRC) and the target area level (residents within a defined target area surrounding each facility, enabling malaria incidence estimation with a population denominator).