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Malaria in pregnancy

Africa

• Malaria Journal
  • Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in Africa: What's new, what's needed? [2007]

• PLoS ONE
  • Social and Cultural Factors Affecting Uptake of Interventions for Malaria in Pregnancy in Africa: A Systematic Review of the Qualitative Research [2011]

Benin

• American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Prevention of Malaria during Pregnancy: Assessing the Effect of the Distribution of IPTp Through the National Policy in Benin [2011]

India

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Control measures for malaria in pregnancy in India [2008]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Drugs for treating uncomplicated malaria in pregnant women
  • Drugs for preventing malaria in pregnant women

• Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium
  • Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium

Mozambique

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy in central Mozambique [2007]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • Impact of Malaria during Pregnancy on Low Birth Weight in Sub-Saharan Africa [2004]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: at the crossroads of public health policy [2011]

• Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
  • Impact of Placental Plasmodium falciparum Malaria on Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcome in Sub-Saharan Africa: part III: placental malaria, maternal health, and public health [2008]
  • Impact of placental Plasmodium falciparum malaria on pregnancy and perinatal outcome in sub-Saharan Africa: II: effects of placental malaria on perinatal outcome; malaria and HIV [2007]
  • Impact of Placental Plasmodium falciparum Malaria on Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcome in Sub-Saharan Africa: I: Introduction to Placental Malaria [2007]

Sudan

• Federal Ministry of Health Sudan
  • The malaria in pregnancy control strategic plan 2004-2008 [2006]

• Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
  • A perspective of the epidemiology of malaria and anaemia and their impact on maternal and perinatal outcomes in Sudan [2011]

United Kingdom

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • The prevention of malaria in pregnancy. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists [2010]
  • The diagnosis and treatment of malaria in pregnancy. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists [2010]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The prevention of malaria in pregnancy [2010]
  • The diagnosis and treatment of malaria in pregnancy [2010]

United States of America

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Malaria in Pregnancy

WHO

• Roll Back Malaria
  • Partnership publications and multimedia resources

• WHO Regional Office for Africa
  • A Strategic Framework for Malaria Prevention and Control During Pregnancy in the African Region [2004]

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Interventions to prevent malaria-related morbidity and mortality in pregnancy [2009]
  • Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria in pregnancy [2006]

• World Health Organization
  • WHO policy brief for Global Fund proposal development on malaria in pregnancy [2007]
  • Malaria in pregnancy [2007]
  • Assessment of the safety of artemisinin compounds in pregnancy [2007]
  • Protecting all pregnant women and children under five years living in malaria endemic areas in Africa with insecticide treated mosquito nets [2006]
  • Recommendations on the use of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) for Intermittent Preventive Treatment during Pregnancy (IPT) in areas of moderate to high resistance to SP in the African Region [2005]
  • Malaria in pregnancy publications
  • Lives at risk: malaria in pregnancy

Articles in journals

• American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Malaria in Pregnancy: Linking Immunity and Pathogenesis to Prevention [2007]
  • The contribution of malaria in pregnancy to perinatal mortality [2004]

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Malaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight [2011]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Prophylactic use of antimalarials during pregnancy [2011]

• Clinical Medicine & Research
  • Interactions Between Natural Killer Cells, Cortisol and Prolactin in Malaria During Pregnancy [2006]

• Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology
  • Azithromycin plus chloroquine: combination therapy for protection against malaria and sexually transmitted infections in pregnancy [2011]

• Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
  • Guidelines and considerations for testing malaria vaccines in pregnant women [2010]

• International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Protective efficacy of interventions for preventing malaria mortality in children in Plasmodium falciparum endemic areas [2010]
  • Estimation of effectiveness of interventions for malaria control in pregnancy using the screening method [2007]

• Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Advances and challenges in malaria vaccine development [2010]

• Malaria Journal
  • The epidemiology of postpartum malaria: a systematic review [2012]
  • Combination of probenecid-sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy [2012]
  • A systematic review of the safety and efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine against uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria during pregnancy [2012]
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis: rapid diagnostic tests versus placental histology, microscopy and PCR for malaria in pregnant women [2011]
  • Azithromycin-chloroquine and the intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy [2008]
  • The safety of artemisinins during pregnancy: a pressing question [2007]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Unraveling the Impact of Malaria Exposure Before Birth [2009]
  • New Medicines for Tropical Diseases in Pregnancy: Catch-22 [2008]
  • Malaria in Pregnancy: What Can the Social Sciences Contribute? [2007]
  • Insecticide-Treated Nets for the Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials [2007]

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