CLOSED: Job: Entomologist Malaria Study DRC
Organisation: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Duration: 4 to 6 months
Apply: before Sunday December 2 2012
Organisation: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Duration: 4 to 6 months
Apply: before Sunday December 2 2012
Organisation: PSI
Department: West and Central Africa
Date: August 2012
We assessed the prevalence of malaria using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and estimated the consequences of infection on birth outcomes, using specimens from a nationally representative sample of 4570 women of childbearing age (WOCBA) responding to the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Polymorphism in P. falciparum clinical isolates from Brazzaville was high and mainly of multiple clones.
A single dose of orally administered AS was found to be both effective and without adverse effects in this study of second and third trimester pregnant women in the DRC.