Decreasing burden of malaria in pregnancy in Malawian women and its relationship to use of intermittent preventive therapy or bed nets

The World Health Organization recommends insecticidal bednets and intermittent preventive treatment to reduce malaria in pregnancy. Longitudinal data of malaria prevalence and pregnancy outcomes are valuable in gauging the impact of these antimalarial interventions. We recruited 8,131 women deliveri...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2010-08, Vol.5 (8), p.e12012
Hauptverfasser:	Feng, Gaoqian, Simpson, Julie A, Chaluluka, Ebbie, Molyneux, Malcolm E, Rogerson, Stephen J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS Anemia Antimalarial agents Antimalarials Babies Bednets Birth weight Blood Childbirth & labor Demographics Disease transmission Drug Combinations Drug dosages Female Gaging Gauging Health facilities Hemoglobin Hemoglobins HIV Hospitals - statistics & numerical data Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Hydrologic data Infections Infectious Diseases/Protozoal Infections Insecticide resistance Longitudinal Studies Low-birth-weight Malaria Malaria - epidemiology Malaria - prevention & control Malawi Medicine Morbidity Mosquito Nets - statistics & numerical data Nets Parasitemia Parasites Placenta Plasmodium falciparum Pregnancy Pregnancy Complications - epidemiology Pregnancy Complications - prevention & control Pregnancy Outcome - epidemiology Pregnant women Preventive medicine Public Health and Epidemiology/Infectious Diseases Public Health and Epidemiology/Preventive Medicine Pyrimethamine Pyrimethamine - pharmacology Sexually transmitted diseases STD Studies Sulfadoxine Sulfadoxine - pharmacology Syphilis Therapy Time Factors Trends Vaccines Vector-borne diseases Womens health
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