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Introduction: Malaria is a serious disease that has among its complication’s acute kidney injury, as a consequence of a sudden decline in glomerular filtration, leading the patient to hemodialysis treatment. Objective: Estimate the prevalence of acute kidney injury in patients with malaria treated at the hemodialysis center of the municipality of Lobito, in the period 2018 to 2022. Materials and methods: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective study. Study population: total cases treated at the hemodialysis center in the study period (n=861). Inclusion criteria: malaria patients complicated with acute kidney injury. Sample consisting of 387 patients. The data were collected from the hospital's digital renal case management platform, and treated with descriptive statistics through absolute frequency and percentage. Results: In the period there was an increase in preva...