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Impact of annual albendazole versus four-monthly test-and-treat approach of int...
Gasparinho, Carolina; Kanjungo, Aguinaldo; Zage, Félix; Clemente, Isabel; Santos-Reis, Ana; Brito, Miguel; Sousa-Figueiredo, José CarlosMalnutrition and intestinal parasites continue to have serious impacts on the growth and cognitive development of children in Angola. A longitudinal four-arm randomized parallel trial was conducted to investigate if deworming with a single annual dose of albendazole (annual-ALB) or a four-monthly test-and-treat (4TT) intestinal parasites approach at an individual or household levels improve nutritional outcomes...
Role of malnutrition and parasite infections in the spatial variation in childr...
Magalhães, Ricardo J. Soares; Langa, António; Pedro, João Mário; Sousa-Figueiredo, José Carlos; Clements, Archie C. A.; Nery, Susana VazAnaemia is known to have an impact on child development and mortality and is a severe public health problem in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. We investigated the consistency between ecological and individual-level approaches to anaemia mapping by building spatial anaemia models for children aged ≤15 years using different modelling approaches. We aimed to (i) quantify the role of malnutrition, malaria, Sc...
Epidemiology of malaria, schistosomiasis, geohelminths, anemia and malnutrition...
Sousa-Figueiredo, José Carlos; Gamboa, Dina; Pedro, João Mário; Fançony, Cláudia; Langa, António Justino; Magalhães, Ricardo J. SoaresBackground: Malaria, schistosomiasis and geohelminth infection are linked to maternal and child morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Knowing the prevalence levels of these infections is vital to guide governments towards the implementation of successful and cost-effective disease control initiatives. Methodology/Principal Findings: A cross-sectional study of 1,237 preschool children (0–5 year olds), 1...