Impact of malaria during pregnancy on low birth weight in sub-Saharan AfricaHelen L Guyatt
Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, P O Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
Clin Microbiol Rev 17:760-9, table of contents. 2004
..These estimates imply that around 100,000 infant deaths each year could be due to LBW caused by malaria during pregnancy in areas of malaria endemicity in Africa...
- Use of intermittent presumptive treatment and insecticide treated bed nets by pregnant women in four Kenyan districts
H L Guyatt
Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 9:255-61. 2004
..Issues of commodity supply and service costs to clients will be the greatest impediments to reaching RBM targets...
- The management of fevers in Kenyan children and adults in an area of seasonal malaria transmission
Helen L Guyatt
KEMRI Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, GPO 00100, Nairobi, PO Box 43640, Kenya
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 98:111-5. 2004
..In light of the proposed new, more costly anti-malarial drug combinations these findings have major implications for the effective allocation of limited financial resources at household and government levels...
- Free bednets to pregnant women through antenatal clinics in Kenya: a cheap, simple and equitable approach to delivery
Helen L Guyatt
Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 7:409-20. 2002
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- Too poor to pay: charging for insecticide-treated bednets in highland Kenya
Helen L Guyatt
Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories KEMRI, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 7:846-50. 2002
..One option to have an immediate equitable impact on ITN coverage and break the cycle between malaria and poverty is to provide this service free of charge...
- Malaria prevention in highland Kenya: indoor residual house-spraying vs. insecticide-treated bednets
Helen L Guyatt
Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories KEMRI, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 7:298-303. 2002
..This study suggests that IRS may be both more effective and cheaper than ITNs in communities subjected to low, seasonal risks of infection and as such should be considered as part of the control armamentarium for malaria prevention...
- A cost analysis of the employer-based bednet programme in Coastal and Western Kenya
Isaac K Ngugi
Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Health Policy Plan 19:111-9. 2004
..Consequently, OCGs in nine of the 13 companies involved had retained enough funds from which they could buy and sell bednets without further donor financial support, and this portrays some elements of a sustainable supply system...
- The cost of not treating bednets
Helen L Guyatt
Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, PO Box 43640, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
Trends Parasitol 18:12-6. 2002
..The evidence for a protective effect of untreated nets against malaria is presented here alongside an analysis of how well untreated nets would need to work in order to compete with treated nets within a cost-effectiveness framework...
- Defining and detecting malaria epidemics in the highlands of western Kenya
Simon I Hay
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Emerg Infect Dis 8:555-62. 2002
..The performance of these methods is discussed and comments made about their appropriateness for the highlands of western Kenya...
- Clinical epidemiology of malaria in the highlands of western Kenya
Simon I Hay
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Emerg Infect Dis 8:543-8. 2002
..The malaria of the region is best described as seasonal and meso-endemic. We discuss the implications for malaria control options in the Kenyan highlands...
