Sunny Oyakhirome

University

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

PhD Title

Intermittent preventive treatment and Intermittent screening and treatment of malaria during pregnancy: Implications on malaria infection during infancy

Abstract

Malaria in pregnancy and associated maternal and child morbidity is still unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa. One of the many adverse consequences of malaria in pregnancy (MIP) is; enhanced susceptibility of infants to malaria. The intermittent preventive treatment of pregnant women with sulphadoxine-pyrimenthamine (SP) is effective in reducing maternal and child mortality and morbidity, however drug pressure and subsequent increasing SP resistance may frustrate the effect of intermittent preventive treatment with SP. I intend to evaluate the risk of malaria infection in infants, following antimalarial intervention during pregnancy