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| Suzanne FilteauSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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The HIV-exposed, uninfected African childSuzanne Filteau
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Trop Med Int Health 14:276-87. 2009..A broad approach for psychosocial support of HIV-affected families is needed to improve health of HIV-EU children. High quality programmatic research is needed to determine how to deliver such care...
Provision of micronutrient-fortified food from 6 months of age does not permit HIV-exposed uninfected Zambian children to catch up in growth to HIV-unexposed children: a randomized controlled trialSuzanne Filteau
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, New Zealand
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 56:166-75. 2011..HIV-exposed, uninfected (HIV-EU) children represent a large proportion of children in southern Africa. The reasons for their poorer growth and higher morbidity and mortality than their HIV-unexposed peers are unclear...
Assessing water filtration and safe storage in households with young children of HIV-positive mothers: a randomized, controlled trial in ZambiaRachel Peletz
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e46548. 2012..This population may particularly benefit from an intervention to improve water quality in the home...
Rich micronutrient fortification of locally produced infant food does not improve mental and motor development of Zambian infants: a randomised controlled trialDaniela Manno
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Br J Nutr 107:556-66. 2012..In conclusion, the results do not support the hypothesis that rich micronutrient fortification improves Zambian infants' mental and motor development...
The effects of micronutrient-fortified complementary/replacement food on intestinal permeability and systemic markers of inflammation among maternally HIV-exposed and unexposed Zambian infantsAnne Mullen
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Br J Nutr 107:893-902. 2012..In conclusion, a richly fortified complementary/replacement food did not benefit and may have worsened intestinal permeability...
Determinants of infant feeding choices by Zambian mothers: a mixed quantitative and qualitative studyMolly Chisenga
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
Matern Child Nutr 7:148-59. 2011..The recently revised international HIV and infant feeding recommendations may make the counselling process simpler for health workers and makes following their advice easier for HIV-infected women...
Risk factors for subclinical mastitis among HIV-infected and uninfected women in Lusaka, ZambiaLackson Kasonka
University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:379-91. 2006..The impact of improved postpartum health care, especially management of maternal infections and especially in primiparous women, on the prevalence of subclinical mastitis and its consequences requires investigation...
Reduced Poliovirus vaccine neutralising-antibody titres in infants with maternal HIV-exposureMarta Sanz-Ramos
Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Vaccine 31:2042-9. 2013..The responses to vaccination are less well defined. Immunity to oral Poliovirus vaccine (OPV) was studied in Zambian infants participating in a randomised controlled trial of micronutrient fortification to improve child health...
Drinking water quality, feeding practices, and diarrhea among children under 2 years of HIV-positive mothers in peri-urban ZambiaRachel Peletz
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Am J Trop Med Hyg 85:318-26. 2011..60, 95% CI = 1.29-16.42). Children born to HIV-positive mothers were exposed to contaminated water through direct intake of drinking water, indicating the need for interventions to ensure microbiological water quality...
A randomized trial of the impact of multiple micronutrient supplementation on mortality among HIV-infected individuals living in BangkokSukhum Jiamton
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
AIDS 17:2461-9. 2003..The clinical findings need to be reproduced in other settings and the mechanism, which appears to be independent of change in CD4 cell count, merits further investigation...
Weight-for-age z-score as a proxy marker for diarrhoea in epidemiological studiesWolf Peter Schmidt
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 64:1074-9. 2010..However, even a transient decrease in WAZ could indicate recent diarrhoea, and be interpreted as the effect of an intervention...
