Discussion
malaria
MALARIA, SEMI
This study sought to investigate the hypothesis that interventions to reduce household biomass smoke may have unintended risks of increasing placental malaria and/or malaria in the first year of life. There was no significant increased risk of placental malaria nor infant malaria resulting from interventions that reduced exposure to biomass smoke. The findings from this study is consistent with findings in a retrospective case controls study conducted in Burkina Faso among pregnant women and children less than 9 years of age [Several factors may explain the equal risk of malaria among the invention. It is likely that the biting times of malaria vectors occur at different times from household cooking times. Female The relatively low average CO exposures in GRAPHS compared to other studies on household cooking are consistent with majority of the cohort cooking outdoors or in semi enclosed settings. Different results could be possible in settings where cooking occurs in poorly vented indoor locations where the smoke maybe more of a deterrent to mosquitoes.