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(The Malaria Atlas Project ), abbreviated as MAP, is a non-profit project funded primarily by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. MAP is hosted within the (Division of Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) ) within the University of Oxford. MAP aims to disseminate free, accurate and up-to-date information on malaria and associated topics, organised on a geographical basis. The work of MAP falls into three areas: *The estimation of the spatial distribution of malaria prevalence and incidence and related topics such as the spatial distribution of insecticide treated nets, antimalarial drugs, mosquito vectors, and human blood disorders *Disseminating data on malaria via the Repository for Open Access Data (ROAD-MAP) project *Providing maps relating to malaria prevalence and related topics for the World Health Organization (WHO) and other bodies. The MAP team have assembled a unique spatial database on linked information derived from medical intelligence, satellite-derived climate data to constrain the limits of malaria transmission, and the largest ever archive of community-based estimates of parasite prevalence. These data have been assembled and analysed by a team of geographers, statisticians, epidemiologists, biologists and public health specialists. Furthermore, where these data have been cleared for release, they are available via a data explorer tool on the (MAP website ) ==History== MAP was founded by Bob Snow and Simon Hay in 2005 to fill the niche for the malaria control community at a global scale. Since 2012, it has been led by Peter Gething, Dave Smith, Catherine Moyes and Simon Hay. The initial focus of MAP centred on predicting the endemicity of ''Plasmodium falciparum'', the most deadly form of the malaria parasite, due to its global epidemiological significance and its better prospects for elimination and control. Work in 2009 began to map the extent and burden of the relatively neglected ''Plasmodium vivax''. The Repository for Open Access Data from the Malaria Atlas Project (ROAD-MAP) was established by Catherine Moyes, Simon Hay and Bob Snow in 2011. Since 2014, it has been led by Peter Gething and Mike Thorn. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malaria Atlas Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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