House design and risk of malaria, acute respiratory infection and gastrointestinal illness in Uganda: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT: House construction is rapidly modernizing across Africa but the potential benefits for human health are poorly understood. We hypothesised that improvements to housing would be associated with reductions in malaria, acute respiratory infection (ARI) and gastrointestinal illness in an area of low malaria endemicity in Uganda. Data were analysed from a cohort study of male and female child and adult residents (n = 531) of 80 randomly-selected households in Nagongera sub-county, followed for 24 months (October 4, 2017 to October 31, 2019). Houses were classified as modern (brick walls, metal roof and closed eaves) or traditional (all other homes). Light trap collections of mosquitoes were done every two weeks in all sleeping rooms. Every four weeks, we measured malaria infection (using micros

SUBMITTER: Musiime AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022195 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature