Abstract:
This research was directed to Prevalence Of Malaria Parasite And Its Associated Risk Factors
among patients attending at AvegaNtarama health centre, eastern rwanda. The The general
objective of the study was to assess the extent malarial load among malaria infected
patients attending at AvegaNtarama Heath Centre. The Specific objectives of this study are (1)to
identify malaria parasite to species level among patient attending at AvegaNtarama Heath
Centre.(2)to determine the most prevalent plasmodium species among patient attending at
AvegaNtarama Health Centr,(3)to identify associated risk factors related to malaria species
among patients attending at AvegaNtarama Heath Centre.
The study adopted a retrospective cross-sectional study design with quantitative approach. The
study were included total population of 400 and sample size of 400 patients attending at
AvegaNtarama health centre. Secondary data from June to December 2020,were used and
questionnaire to assess the risk factors. Data analysis was performed using the statistical package
for social sciences (SPSS) software, version 20 The result found show that the prevalence of
malaria parasite into the all patients attending Avegantarama health center 90(22.5%) and also It
reveals that the most prevalent plasmodium species is Falciparum with 50 (55.6 %), followed by
ovale species with 17 (18.9%), vivax with 14 (15.6%), malariae, 9 (10%) and then the nonrelated species is knowlesi with 0 (0%) among the patients in the area under study. The risk
factors associated with malaria in patients under study were stagnant water sites near the home,
overnight staying outdoors and bush. This decision has been set due to the facts that the
corresponding p-value associated to the Chi-square statistics of these factors is all less than the
cutoff (5%). That is, for the Stagnant water sites near the home χ² (394) = 52.703, p-value=0.02
, Overnight Staying outdoors χ² (396) = 67.09, p-value=0.043 and Bush sites near the
home χ² (389) =78.09, p-value=0.01 . We conclude that AvegaNtarama Heath Centre
should improve the ways of covering Malaria Species parasite.The results show does not reduce
the risk of malaria incidence during patients this Study they have to take majors to prevent
malaria parasite. We recommend ministry of health to give fund for education researches and
invest money in further research with more time in all regions of Rwanda to determine the
prevalence of malaria Species and associated risk factors. Many trainings should be given to
community health care workers on how to do follow up to all Person.
