Associations between study interventions and malaria parasitaemia in infants
malaria, parasitaemia, first/only
MALARIA
Out of the 1165 infants, 520 (44.6%) experienced at least 1 episode of malaria parasitaemia in the first year of life. In all, 923 distinct episodes of malaria (ranging from one to eight per child) were experienced over the twelve-month period of follow-up. Only one infant whose mother was assigned to the control group did not experience any form of malaria throughout the period of follow-up. On the average, infants whose mothers were assigned to the control and Biolite stove experienced approximately the same number of distinct episodes during the follow-up, though the maximum distinct episodes was experienced by infants whose mothers were assigned to the Biolite stove (Table Summary of placental malaria and episodes of malaria over the 12 months follow up by interventionIncidence of malaria parasitaemia in infants according to the intervention of their motherIn both adjusted and unadjusted analyses, the hazard of first and/or only episode of malaria parasitaemia was similar in the LPG and Biolite arms compared to the control arm. The infant’s exposure to CO was also not statistically associated with first and all episodes of malaria parasitaemia in the first year of life (Table Association between study intervention, infant CO exposure and hazard for first/only episode and all episodes of malaria parasitaemia in the first year of lifeThe adjusted analysis includes maternal age, child’s sex, wealth index, nulliparity, receipt of IPTp, maternal marital status, malaria transmission season at delivery, and placental malariaKaplan–Meier curves for the risk of first or only episode of malaria distinguished by intervention type