Establishment of an early warning system for malaria in Southern Africa, incorporating climate predictions – Overview of the iDEWS project


Noboru Minakawa1, Neville Sweijd2, Swadhin K Behera3, Masahiro Hashizume4, Takeshi Ikeda, Yoonhee Kim6, Peter Witbooi7, Philip Kruger8, Willem Landman9, Rajendra Maharaj10, Masami Nonaka11, Yushi Morioka3 and Ataru Tsuzuki4, (1)Nagasaki University, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan, (2)Applied Center for Climate and Earth Systems Science, Cape Town, South Africa, (3)VAiG, JAMSTEC, Application Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan, (4)Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, (5)University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (6)University of the Western Cape, Department of Mathematics, Cape Town, South Africa, (7)Limpopo Department of Health, Tzaneen, South Africa, (8)University of Pretoria, Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, Pretoria, South Africa, (9)MRC, Durban, South Africa, (10)JAMSTEC, Application Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan