SS Taiwo

TL;DR: Clinical diagnosis cannot be relied upon for accurate diagnosis of P. falciparum in endemic areas and PCR test performed best among the three methods followed by TFM and RDT in that order.

TL;DR: The mean haemoglobin concentration and packed cell volume (PCV) of HIV individuals with malaria parasitaemia were lower compared to those without malaria Parasitaemia but the difference was not statistically significant, and no significant difference was observed in malaria positivity in respect to sex and mean CD4+ cell count.

TL;DR: Routine screening of blood donors for HBV and HIV is now carried out by most blood banks in Nigeria, but only a few centres routinely screen for HCV, and the level reported here is less than the 21.3% reported in Ibadan, which is in the same geographical zone.

TL;DR: It is recommended that the public be adequately health educated on the epidemiology of intestinal helminth infection and a periodic mass treatment of school children with iron supplementation is advocated.

TL;DR: Information is provided on the available malaria diagnostics and the recent advances in the laboratory diagnosis of malaria and the long time, high cost and technical expertise required is limiting the usefulness of these techniques, especially in Africa.