Helen Guyatt

Summary

Affiliation: Kenya Medical Research Institute
Country: Kenya

Publications

  1. ncbi 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
  2. ncbi Use of bednets given free to pregnant women in Kenya
    Helen Guyatt
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Lancet 362:1549-50. 2003
  3. ncbi Malaria in pregnancy as an indirect cause of infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
    H L Guyatt
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, P O Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 95:569-76. 2001
  4. ncbi The cost of delivering and sustaining a control programme for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis
    Helen Guyatt
    Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories KEMRI, PO Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
    Acta Trop 86:267-74. 2003
  5. ncbi 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
  6. ncbi 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
  7. ncbi 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
  8. ncbi 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
  9. ncbi 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
  10. ncbi 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

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Publications12

  1. ncbi 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
    ....
  2. ncbi Use of bednets given free to pregnant women in Kenya
    Helen Guyatt
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
    Lancet 362:1549-50. 2003
    ....
  3. ncbi Malaria in pregnancy as an indirect cause of infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
    H L Guyatt
    Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, P O Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 95:569-76. 2001
    ..This may explain the high reduction in infant mortality rates from interventions aimed at reducing transmission, over and above that expected from a decline in direct malaria-specific mortality alone...
  4. ncbi The cost of delivering and sustaining a control programme for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis
    Helen Guyatt
    Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories KEMRI, PO Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya
    Acta Trop 86:267-74. 2003
    ..Whether these school health programmes could run independently of this system at such a low cost remains to be seen...
  5. ncbi 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...
  6. ncbi 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...
  7. ncbi 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...
  8. ncbi 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...
  9. ncbi 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...
  10. ncbi 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...
  11. ncbi 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...
  12. ncbi Impact of malaria during pregnancy on low birth weight in sub-Saharan Africa
    Helen 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...