Of these factors, haemoglobinophathies (HbAS, G6PD- α*) could be the most important in the current study singly or in combination as shown in (Table 2) where 42% of the non-malaria infected children had one or more types of haemoglobinopathies compared to 25% of the non-anemic non-malaria infected children. This evidence concerns the gene G6PD and malaria.