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Eff ect of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria on health and education in schoolchildren: a cluster-randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
(ScienceDirect, 2008-07-18)
Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in early childhood, yet its consequences for health and education during the school-age years remain poorly understood. We examined the effect of intermittent preventive ...
Costs and cost-effectiveness of delivering intermittent preventive treatment through schools in Western Kenya
(BMC, 2008)
Awareness of the potential impact of malaria among school-age children has stimulated investigation into malaria interventions that can be delivered through schools. However, little evidence is available on the costs and ...
Relationships between anaemia and parasitic infections in Kenyan schoolchildren: A Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach
(Elsevier, 2008)
Anaemia is multi-factorial in origin and disentangling its aetiology remains problematic, with surprisingly few studies investigating the relative contribution of different parasitic infections to anaemia amongst schoolchildren. ...
Costs and cost-effectiveness of delivering intermittent preventive treatment through schools in western Kenya
(Malaria Journal, 2008-09-30)
Background: Awareness of the potential impact of malaria among school-age children has stimulated investigation into malaria interventions that can be delivered through schools. However, little evidence is available on the ...
Association between sickle cell trait and low density parasitaemia among asymptomatic and parasitaemic individuals living in P. falciparum malaria Holoendemic region of Western Kenya.
(SDI, 2008)
The frequency of the mutant gene for sickle cell is widely distributed in the sub-Saharan
Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. There is epidemiologic evidence that
sickle cell trait confers a survival ...