Iron Delivery Amid Nutritional and Infectious Adversity

Providing sufficient iron for brain development while protecting children from infection in malaria-endemic areas has remained an unresolved public health goal for more than 2 decades. A landmark study conducted on Pemba Island, Tanzania, brought the complex relationship between iron and malaria to the forefront by demonstrating that universal prophylactic iron supplementation increased the risk of hospitalization and death among young children in areas of high malaria transmission. Subsequent a...