To compare routine versus selective (ie, screening and treatment for anaemia) prenatal iron prophylaxis in a malaria-endemic and HIV-prevalent setting, an extended analysis including previously missing data.
Design: A pragmatic randomised controlled clinical trial.
Setting: 2 health centres in Maputo, ...
A malária e HIV/SIDA representam os dois principais problemas de saúde pública no mundo. O efeito da imunodepressão causada pelo HIV/SIDA afecta a resposta imune do hospedeiro contra a malária; contudo estudos sobre o impactodo HIV/SIDA na resposta humoral contra Pl...
As infecções pelo Plasmodium falciparum (P.falciparum) e pelo Vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana (HIV) constituem problema de Saúde Pública particularmente na África subsaariana onde as duas infecções têm o seu maior peso. A sobreposição geográfica das duas infecções implica a ocorrência da...
Malaria in pregnancy is a public health problem for endemic countries. Economic evaluations of malaria preventive strategies in pregnancy are needed to guide health policies. Methods and Findings: This analysis was carried out in the context of a trial of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in preg...
Objectives: To describe the prevalence, aetiology and prognostic implications of coexisting invasive bacterial disease in children admitted with severe malaria in a rural Mozambican Hospital. Methods: Retrospective study of data systematically collected from June 2003 to May 2007 in a rural Mozambican ho...
Background: Falciparum malaria affects pregnant women, especially primigravidae, but before malaria control programmes targeted to them can be designed, a description of the frequency and parity pattern of the infection is needed. There is little information on the frequency and effect of submicroscopic ...
