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

Cecchi et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2009 8:15   doi:10.1186/1476-072X-8-15