Abstract
Hookworm infection is a recognized precipitating factor for iron deficiency anaemia (reviewed by SCHAD & WARREN 1990). In developing societies where hookworm infection is prevalent diets are marginal in quality and fertility rates are high it is probable that hookworm infection during pregnancy is a significant contributor to the burden of disease in women. Direct estimation of the disease burden is not possible using currently available data. This analysis pursues the simpler goal of providing an order of magnitude estimate of the number of women who are both pregnant and infected with hookworm burdens of a magnitude that is likely to be associated with disease. A basic sensitivity analysis is undertaken for data for sub-Saharan Africa before attempting a global estimate. (excerpt)
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