Global Malaria Treatment Coverage for Febrile Children Under Age 5

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) provides a dataset on malaria first-line treatment coverage, last updated on 2026-07-12. It reports the percentage of febrile children under five receiving Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) among those receiving any antimalarial drugs. The data is available in CSV and XML formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Modeling geographic disparities in malaria treatment access based on reported coverage percentages.
• Tracking progress towards malaria treatment targets for children under five over time.
• Analyzing the relationship between first-line drug administration and broader antimalarial treatment patterns.

Strengths

• Data is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ), a recognized authority on child health indicators.
• Dataset has a specific temporal reference point with a last update date of 2026-07-12.
• Available in two structured, machine-readable formats: CSV and XML.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-12 10:53:33.610893; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global