Rodrick Kisenge

Multivitamin Supplementation and Maternal-fetal Disproportion among HIV-negative Women in Tanzania

Ayesha Sania, Donna Spiegelman, Janet Rich-Edwards, Ellen Hertzmark, Rodrick Kisenge, Gernard Msamanga, Willy Urassa & Wafaie Fawzi · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: We evaluated the effect of multivitamin supplementation on delivery complications that can arise from maternal-fetal disproportion. Methods: We used data from a double-blind, randomized controlled trial among 8286 HIV-negative pregnant women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21208

Malarial Morbidity and Postnatal HIV Infection in Breastfeeding HIV-exposed Infants

Amara E. Ezeamama, Christopher Duggan, Donna Spiegelman, Ellen Hertzmark, Ronald J. Bosch, Karim P. Manji, Roland Kupka, Melanie W. Lo, James O. Okuma, Rodrick Kisenge, Said Aboud & Wafaie W. Fawzi · International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health · 2013

Background: For at-risk HIV-negative individuals, whether malarial morbidity increases the likelihood of HIV infection when exposed is unknown. Hence, we investigate the malaria-associated risk of postnatal HIV infection in 1804 breastfeeding infants of HIV-positive women from Da...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/IJTDH/2014/6085