Malaria in Women and Children

After reading this chapter and answering the discussion questions that follow, you should be able to: Explain the global burden of malaria, discuss its clinical manifestations, and appraise its health impact on women and children. Analyze the mechanisms and consequences of malaria and HIV co-infecti...

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Autores principales: Meremikwu, Martin, Ezedinachi, Emmanuel, Ehiri, John E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176232/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b106524_12
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description After reading this chapter and answering the discussion questions that follow, you should be able to: Explain the global burden of malaria, discuss its clinical manifestations, and appraise its health impact on women and children. Analyze the mechanisms and consequences of malaria and HIV co-infection and discuss current treatment, control and prevention strategies. Describe the challenges posed by vector resistance to insecticides, parasite resistance to antimalarials, climate change, wars/conflicts, and HIV/AIDS to malaria control and prevention efforts. Evaluate social, cultural, and economic limitations of community-based programs for malaria control and prevention.
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spelling pubmed-71762322020-04-22 Malaria in Women and Children Meremikwu, Martin Ezedinachi, Emmanuel Ehiri, John E. Maternal and Child Health Article After reading this chapter and answering the discussion questions that follow, you should be able to: Explain the global burden of malaria, discuss its clinical manifestations, and appraise its health impact on women and children. Analyze the mechanisms and consequences of malaria and HIV co-infection and discuss current treatment, control and prevention strategies. Describe the challenges posed by vector resistance to insecticides, parasite resistance to antimalarials, climate change, wars/conflicts, and HIV/AIDS to malaria control and prevention efforts. Evaluate social, cultural, and economic limitations of community-based programs for malaria control and prevention. 2009-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7176232/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b106524_12 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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