Infancy (0-12 months) is the most important period in human development. This is due in this period of brain development and intelligence that will affect adulthood (Winarno, 1990). Developmental disorder is a condition in which the child is not able to achieve the developmental tasks at the expected time. Disorder can occur in many areas of development, for example in motorik, language, social…
Breast milk is the appropriate for babies for the first six months after birth. Although it has been known that exclusive breastfeeding has many benefits and encouraged by the government, but the proportion of exclusive breas feeding is still low, including Bogor. One of the the reason for the failure in exclusive breastfeeding is the prelacteal feeding practice among newborn babies. This analy…
Quality assurance of malaria microscopy is an important issue in health service and health research for a better case management. In monitoring Dyhydroartemisinin-Piperaquine, quality assurance was a part of this research activities at sentinel sites in Kalimantan and Sulawesi. This activity was carried out to confirmed diagnosis of malaria cases that could be analysed, and to evaluate the skil…
Treatment failure in falciparum malaria may be caused by parasite resistant to antimalarial drug or new infection. Polymorphism genetic marker of P. falciparum namely MSP1, MSP2 and GLURP locus genes in the population should be identified as a baseline to distinguish the cause of treatment failure. A nested Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method was applied to each locus gene separately. A tota…