Urbanization and symptomatic malaria in relation to retroviral screening
| dc.contributor.author | Adeoti, O. M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Anumudu, C. I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Olaniyan, M. F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Adejumobi, C. A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ajifowobaje, C. O. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Owolabi, A. G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hammed, O. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-08T10:44:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-10-08T10:44:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A descriptive cross-section analysis of five hundred patients who were symptomatically diagnosed of malaria in three locations: Saki (peri-urban), Ibadan (urban) and Lagos (highly urbanized) were recruited for this study using a well structured questionnaire between September 2005 and June 2006. The prevalence of both malaria and HIV infections were higher in Peri-Urban town than the other two locations. We observed that 80% were HIV positive in Saki. 20% in Ibadan and 37.1 % in Lagos. Our data indicated that 74% were malaria positive in Saki, 87% in Lagos and 24% in Ibadan. The percentage of co-infection in Saki, Logos and Ibadan were 69%, 16% and 14.3% respectively. The high prevalence of coinfection in the two cross-border locations (Saki and Lagos) is suggestive of a high correlation between clinical symptomatic malaria and HIV infection with respect to cross border transmission of the two infections . This paper suggests that government should make provision to establish sentinels for screening immigrants. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1597-8036 | |
| dc.identifier.other | Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences 4(1), pp. 10-15 | |
| dc.identifier.other | ui_art_adeoti_urbanization_2008 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/936 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.title | Urbanization and symptomatic malaria in relation to retroviral screening | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |