Uganda has seen marked improvement in childhood survival over the past two decades. While the scale-up of malaria interventions has been suggested as one of the biggest drivers of these improvements, little research has considered the contribution of other health interventions and sociodemographic factors alongside malaria interventions. To address this knowledge gap, the Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) collaborated to implement the Malaria Control Policy Assessment (MCPA) project. The objective of the MCPA project was to harness existing data in Uganda and use rigorous statistical methods to quantify trends in child health interventions, with a focus on malaria interventions, as well as non-health factors, to better understand their collective impact on under-5 mortality at the subnational level.
