PLoS medicine
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Cindy S Chu and co-authors review options for diagnosis, safe and radical cure, and relapse prevention of Plasmodium Vivax.
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Beryne Odeny reports from the CUGH 2021 virtual conference.
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002617.].
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Jean-Marc Chavatte and Georges Snounou discuss research involving controlled malaria infections.
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The influence of the safety and security of environments on early childhood development (ECD) has been under-explored. Although housing might be linked to ECD by affecting a child's health and a parent's ability to provide adequate care, only a few studies have examined this factor. We hypothesized that housing environment is associated with ECD in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). ⋯ In this study, we observed that improved housing was associated with on-track cognitive development and with on-track social-emotional development in girls. These findings suggest that housing improvement in SSA may be associated not only with benefits for children's physical health but also with broader aspects of healthy child development.