<p><strong>Tpoic</strong></p><p>How different is distribution from trends?</p><p><strong>Abstract Backgound</strong></p><p>Malaria remains the largest contributor to morbidity and mortality among children &amp;lt;5 years in Uganda, killing nearly 20,000 Ugandans each year. We evaluated the trends and distribution of severe malaria from 2017-2021 to inform progress on current interventions against malaria in Uganda.</p><p>you mean children under 5 years?.&nbsp;</p><p>What does the 20,000 Ugandans mean? all age groups and sex? you are talking about under five years children i guess, kindly focus the burden on under 5 in Uganda</p><p><strong>Methods</strong></p><p>We used secondary data from monthly disease surveillance reports from the District Health Information System (DHIS2) for 2017-2021.</p><p>kindly rephrase this sentence, what is meant by for 2017 -2021?</p><p>A severe malaria case was defined as any admission with microscopy-confirmed or rapid diagnostic-test-confirmed malaria during the study period. We calculated proportions of malaria cases that progressed to severe malaria for each year using severe malaria cases as the numerator and total outpatient cases as the denominator.&nbsp;</p><p>what cases were selected initially that has now progressed to severe cases? you need to come clear in your case definition&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Logistic regression was used to evaluate trends by administrative levels and by health facility type (public or private).</p><p>How did you do this? kindly clarify what the dependent variable was and how it was measured?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Results</strong></p><p>What is meant by p&amp;lt;0.001?</p>