type="main" xml:id="rssa12033-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Within an area of sub-Saharan Africa termed ‘the meningitis belt’, meningococcal meningitis epidemics are a major public health concern. The epidemic control strategy that is currently utilized is reactive, such that a vaccination programme is...</p>

type="main" xml:id="rssa12069-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Data from multiple prevalence surveys can provide information on common parameters of interest, which can therefore be estimated more precisely in a joint analysis than by separate analyses of the data from each survey. However, fitting a single...</p>