Malaria parasitaemia among infants and its association with breastfeeding peer counselling and vitamin A supplementation: A secondary analysis of a cluster randomized trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Nankabirwa, Victoria ^a,b   Tylleskar, Thorkild ^b   Nankunda, Jolly ^a,b   Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie S ^b   Sommerfelt, Halvor ^b,c   Tumwine, James K ^a   for the PROMISE EBF Research Consortium, ^d  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL; RAIN;

ARTICLE; BED NET; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITEMIA; PEER COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COUNSELING; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EDUCATION; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PEER GROUP; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BREAST FEEDING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COUNSELING; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO NETS; PARASITEMIA; PEER GROUP; PREGNANCY; RAIN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UGANDA; VITAMIN A; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960061663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021862     Document Type: Article

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