Page 93 - CIBERESP-2015-eng

Most relevant scientific articles
Research groups
MAYOR A., BARDAJI A., MACETE E., NHAMPOSSA T., FONSECA A.M., GONZáLEZ R. ET AL. Changing trends in P. Falciparum burden, immunity, and disease in pregnancy. New England Journal of Medicine. 2015;373(17):1607-1617.
Highlights
PROYECTOS:
URBIZTONDO L., BRONER S., COSTA J., ROCAMORA L., BAYAS J.M., CAMPINS M. ET AL. Seroprevalence study of B. pertussis infection in health care workers in Catalo- nia, Spain. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics. 2015;11(1):293-297.
ISGlobal organized in collaboration with the Ma-
Two new international projects have been launched: one operational research project aimed at evaluat- ing alternatives to increase the coverage of intermit- tent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (MIPPCOD Project) and a project aimed to improve technical capacity through conducting three work- shops reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality (Project Safe Mothers and Newborns: a Leadership Workshop). The MIPPCOD (Malaria in Pregnancy Community Delivery) project in its initial planning phase (January 2015 to April 2016) will determine -through a review of existing evidence and field vis- its- a number of elegible countries where it is fea- sible to evaluate the implementation of intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) delivery during pregnan- cy through community health workers (CHW), as a complementary avenue to the current distribution through the antenatal care services in order to in- crease the effective coverage of the IPTp, a highly cost-effective intervention that currently only 25% of pregnant women in malaria endemic countries re- ceives. The project Safe Mothers and Newborns: A Leadership Workshop; During 2015 we shaped the format and syllabus of the international workshop
ternal Health Task Force of the Harvard School of Public Health and the Aga Khan University. 60 par- ticipants attended the first edition of the workshop (including 20 international speakers and 40 partici- pants from developing countries where the majority of maternal and neonatal deaths occur). Under the coordination of the team of Dr. Menendez two more workshops will be organized in Boston, USA (2016) i Nairobi, Kenya (2017), respectively.
RESULTS:
As results, it would be highlighted a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine and led by ISGlobal and the Manhiça Health Research Center (CISM) in Mozambique, shows that a reduction in the exposure to the malaria parasite can weaken the immune regulation of parasite density and increase the occurrence of adverse clinical outcomes among pregnant women that become infected, as well as their newborns
(http://www.isglobal.org/es/web/guest/new/-/ asset_publisher/JZ9fGljXnWpI/content/el-repunte- de-la-malaria-puede-tener-consecuencias-graves- para-las-mujeres-embarazad-1)
Institution: Hospital Clínic de Barcelona · Contact: C/ Villarroel, 170. 08036 Barcelona E.mail: [email protected] · Website: http://www.isglobal.org
CIBERESP I Annual report 2015 I 93