Science news articles about 'african children'

... 18.5%. In 2007 90 million children have not yet received this simple protective tool ... countries; one country in particular stands out – a quarter of all African children living without nets are Nigerian ...

A new debate in the open access journal PLoS Medicine questions whether all African children with fever should be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs, or if treatment should wait until ...

... was present in 26 percent of the patients, compared with 8 percent of the community children. These findings suggest that cognitive impairment may begin to manifest itself months after the initial ...

... deaths each year in sub-Saharan African children. In spite of this significant mortality, the mechanisms ... wall. Over a one-year period, the group studied children under six years with severe P. ...

... that may contribute to the high mortality associated with severe malaria in sub-Saharan African children. The study reports that severe Plasmodium falciparum infection results in disruption of the ...

Researchers found that the bacteria contributing to the deaths of African children with sickle-cell anemia were the same as those for which vaccines have been developed.

... success rate doesn’t normally call for a celebration. But when that means protecting one in every two African children from a disease that kills a kid every 30 seconds, those odds start looking better ...

LONDON (AP) -- Treating African children at home for malaria doesn't help in cities because most fevers aren't actually caused by malaria, a new study said Tuesday....

... 1,000 – for children admitted to hospital with bacteraemia, confirming that, as in the developed world, African children with sickle cell anaemia are at huge risk of bacteraemia. Amongst the most ...

... are approximately 300 million malaria cases annually worldwide, resulting in more than one million deaths, most of them African children. Certain regions within a key parasite protein — a protein ...