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Chloroquine side-effects

January 31, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION For about two years in the early '90s I indulged in self-prescription of chloroquine because then, I lived in a mosquito infested environment which made me suffer constant malarial attacks. Could this be why I now suffer from severe pains around my pelvis and down my thighs to one of my knées? I make this guess as a layman because recently, following a malarial attack, I took a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Artemisinin, Chloroquine, long-term dosage, retinal damage, Schistosomiasis

Can of Worms: Travel Parasites to Know About

August 17, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

Malaria isn’t the only parasite you need to think about when you travel In my last post, I shared some of the misguided myths about malaria that I had heard while hanging out with the tourists on Zanzibar. Then, in the in-flight magazine on the internal flight between Dar and Mwanza (my flight was over an hour late…hence how the airline, Precision Air, earned its local nickname: “Imprecision … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Africa, Anclyostoma duodenale, Cordylobia anthropophagus, Dracunculiasis, Guinea worm, Helminthes, Necator americanus, Parasites, Schistosomiasis, Trichuris trichiura, Tumbo Flies, Whipworms, Zanzibar

The Effects of Maternal Helminth and Malaria Infections on Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission

November 4, 2005 By Malaria.com Leave a Comment

Objective: To investigate the effect of helminth and/or malaria infection on the risk of HIV infection in pregnant women and its transmission to their offspring. Design: A retrospective cohort study of pregnant Kenyan women and their offspring from term, uncomplicated vaginal deliveries (n = 936) with a nested case-control study. Methods: We determined the presence of HIV, malaria, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Research Tagged With: Helminths, HIV, Kenya, Lymphatic Filariasis, Schistosomiasis

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