Association between malaria and household air pollution interventions in a predominantly rural area of Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Though anecdotal evidence suggests that smoke from HAP has a repellent effect on mosquitoes, very little work has been done to assess the effect of biomass smoke on malaria infection. The study, therefore, sought to investigate the hypothesis that interventions to reduce household biomass smoke may have an unintended consequence of increasing placental malaria or increase malaria infection in the first year of life.

Methods

This provides evidence from a randomized controlled trial among 1414 maternal-infant pairs in the Kintampo North and Kintampo South administrative areas of Ghana. Logistic regression was used to assess the association between study intervention assignment (LPG, Biolite or control) and placental malaria. Finally, an extended Cox model was used t

SUBMITTER: Asante KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10037900 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature