OBJECTIVE To investigate risk factors, including reported net use, for Plasmodium infection and anaemia among school children and to explore variations in effects across different malaria ecologies occurring in Kenya. METHODS This study analysed data for 49 975 school children in 480 schools surveyed during a national school malaria survey, 2008-2010. Mixed effects logistic regression was use...

BACKGROUND The potential of insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) to contribute to child survival has been well documented in randomised controlled trials. ITN coverage has increased rapidly in Kenya from 7% in 2004 to 67% in 2006. We aimed to assess the extent to which this investment has led to improvements in child survival. METHODS A dynamic cohort of about 3500 children aged 1-59 months wer...

BACKGROUND Cost-sharing schemes incorporating modest targeted subsidies have promoted insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria prevention in the Kilombero Valley, southern Tanzania, since 1996. Here we evaluate resulting changes in bednet coverage and malaria transmission. METHODS Bednets were sold through local agents at fixed prices representing a 34% subsidy relative to full delivery co...

Media link events in society into meaningful plotlines for public consumption. For social issues such as homelessness this storytelling process continues until an issue is resolved or another concern takes precedence. This article investigates British Independent Television News1 (ITN) portrayals of homelessness from January 1993 to December 2002 (n = 99). News items are explored as instalments...

Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control are widespread but coverage remains inadequate. We developed a Bayesian model using data from 102 national surveys, triangulated against delivery data and distribution reports, to generate year-by-year estimates of four ITN coverage indicators. We explored the impact of two potential ’inefficiencies’: uneven net distribution among households a...

Library of National Istitute Of Technology Malang is one the facilities and infrastructure that provides various services for providing academic information, while there are collections such as research results, papers, articles, theses postgraduate theses, loan transaction data so far not used further. to also explore patterns information might be valuable use in evaluating book other document...

This Cochrane Review by Polec and colleagues focuses on new approaches for the use of ITNs in malaria prevention by presenting strategies to increase their ownership and use. The analysis focuses on three major topics. First, the influence of the cost of an ITN on ownership is explored and concludes that there is moderate evidence that providing free ITNs increases ownership compared to subsidi...

The incidental thyroid nodule (ITN) is one of the most common incidental findings on imaging studies that include the neck. An ITN is defined as a nodule not previously detected or suspected clinically, but identified by an imaging study. The workup of ITNs has led to increased costs from additional procedures, and in some cases, to increased risk to the patient because physicians are naturally...

The concept of reprogramming immune cells in a way that would eliminate pathogenic responses while preserving normal immune function has excited immunologists for decades. Often promised but never fully realized, these highly specific tolerogenic therapies would replace current immunosuppressive regimens and their often debilitating side effects. It now seems that the more detailed understandin...

BACKGROUND In Sub-Saharan African countries, including Ethiopia, malaria in pregnancy is a major public health threat which results in significant morbidities and mortalities among pregnant women and their fetuses. In malaria endemic areas, Plasmodium infections tend to remain asymptomatic yet causing significant problems like maternal anemia, low birth weight, premature births, and still birth...