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Drissa Konaté, Sory I. Diawara, Larissa H.
Dénou, Fousseyni Doucouré, Oumou Coulibaly, Bourama Keita, Sékou F. Traor,
Seydou Doumbia, Mahamadou Diakité
West African International Center for
Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR-WA); Faculties of Medicine and
Odontostomatology, and Pharmacy; University of Sciences, Techniques and
Technologies of Bamako, Bamako, Mali
University Clinical Research Center,
University of Sciences, Techniques and
Technologies of Bamako, Bamako, Mali
Corresponding Author: Drissa Konaté, West African International Center for Excellence in Malaria
Research (ICEMR-WA); Faculties of Medicine and Odontostomatology, and Pharmacy;
University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Bamako, Mali,
Email: dkonate@icermali.org
Citation: Drissa Konaté (2020)
Association Between Nutritional Status of Children Under Five Years and Malaria
in Koila Bamanan, an Endemic Area in Mali. Public Health & Health
Economics, 1(1);1-4.
Copyright:© 2020, Drissa Konaté, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
ABSTRACT
Malaria and malnutrition are common in Mali and may mutually worsen each other especially in children under 5 years old. A cross sectional survey was done in Koila Bamanan in November 2019 involved 233 children aged 6-59 months to investigate association between the two diseases. The data were collected on malaria, malnutrition and mother’s sociodemographic characteristics. STATA14 was used for data analyze with a significant p value at 0.05. The prevalence of malnutrition was 14.6%, 40% and 10.7% respectively for underweight, stunting and wasting. The prevalence of malaria infection was 12.5%, 57.9% of children did at least one episode during transmission season and 52.8% for anemia prevalence. In multivariate analysis, anemia was associated with higher risk of underweight (OR = 6.91; 95% IC [2.41-19.73]) and stunting (OR=3.28, 95% IC [1.68-6.24]). However, the polygamy was associated with underweight (OR = 0.36; 95% IC [0.15-0.84]) and stunting (OR=0.45 95% IC [0.23-0.87]) reduction. A significant correlation was not found between parasitemia and child nutritional status. The prevalence of malnutrition is high in children, an association between malnutrition and malaria was not found. More studies are required to investigate another factor associated with malnutrition in the area.
KEYWORDS: Malnutrition, Malaria, Children, Mali
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