Table 2 Results of the geo-referencing activity in 6 central-African countries. The table shows how the geographic locations and HAT cases contained in epidemiological reports were geo-referenced with either reported coordinates, gazetteers, or other means (e.g. paper and digital maps, hand-drawn maps, etc.).
Country | Geographic locations | HAT cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
available in the reports | mapped with reported coordinates | mapped with gazetteers | mapped with other resources | not mapped yet | available in the reports | mapped | |
[number] | [%] | [%] | [%] | [%] | [number] | [%] | |
Cameroon | 88 | 51.1 | 30.7 | 14.8 | 3.4 | 141 | 100.0 |
Central Africa Republic | 311 | 64.3 | 16.7 | 2.6 | 16.4 | 3,323 | 96.4 |
Chad | 157 | 63.1 | 17.2 | 7.0 | 12.7 | 1,484 | 97.1 |
Congo | 816 | 60.7 | 24.4 | 11.3 | 3.6 | 4,368 | 99.4 |
Equatorial Guinea | 104 | 72.2 | 19.2 | 1.9 | 6.7 | 136 | 100.0 |
Gabon | 233 | 54.6 | 18.4 | 17.6 | 9.4 | 197 | 97.0 |
TOTAL | 1,709 | 61.5 | 21.8 | 9.0 | 7.7 | 9,649 | 98.0 |