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Afghanistan

• Malaria Journal
  • Towards a strategy for malaria in pregnancy in Afghanistan: analysis of clinical realities and women’s perceptions of malaria and anaemia [2015]

Africa

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Moving malaria in pregnancy programs from neglect to priority: experience from Malawi, Senegal, and Zambia [2014]

• Journal of Global Health
  • The association of malaria infection and gestational hypertension in Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Malaria Journal
  • Rationale for short course primaquine in Africa to interrupt malaria transmission [2013]
  • 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]

Africa, Asia

• PLoS Medicine
  • First-trimester artemisinin derivatives and quinine treatments and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in Africa and Asia: A meta-analysis of observational studies [2017]

Africa, Western Pacific

• BMJ Open
  • Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative, a pooled birth cohort of 13 pregnancy studies in Africa and the Western Pacific [2016]

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]

Bolivia

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Plasmodium vivax Malaria during Pregnancy, Bolivia [2013]

Brazil

• Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
  • A decade of malaria during pregnancy in Brazil: what has been done concerning prevention and management [2014]

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Costs Associated with Malaria in Pregnancy in the Brazilian Amazon, a Low Endemic Area Where Plasmodium vivax Predominates [2016]

Burkina Faso

• Scientific Reports
  • Bayesian Spatiotemporal Modeling of Routinely Collected Data to Assess the Effect of Health Programs in Malaria Incidence During Pregnancy in Burkina Faso [2020]

China

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Congenital Malaria in China [2014]

Gabon

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Antenatal care visit attendance, intermittent preventive treatment and bed net use during pregnancy in Gabon [2013]

Ghana

• Ghana Health Service
  • Malaria in pregnancy: Training manual for health providers [2015]

Indonesia

• Malaria Journal
  • Performance of four HRP-2/pLDH combination rapid diagnostic tests and field microscopy as screening tests for malaria in pregnancy in Indonesia: a cross-sectional study [2015]

International

• BMC Medicine
  • Pregnancy outcomes and risk of placental malaria after artemisinin-based and quinine-based treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in pregnancy: a WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis [2020]

• Malaria Journal
  • Drug treatment and prevention of malaria in pregnancy: a critical review of the guidelines [2021]
  • Epidemiology of clinical congenital and neonatal malaria in endemic settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Women's Access and Provider Practices for the Case Management of Malaria during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2014]

• SBCC Implementation Kits
  • Malaria in Pregnancy Strategy Guidance

• Scientific Reports
  • Global genetic diversity of var2csa in Plasmodium falciparum with implications for malaria in pregnancy and vaccine development [2018]

Kenya

• Malaria Journal
  • Effectiveness of the delivery of interventions to prevent malaria in pregnancy in Kenya [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Knowledge and Adherence to the National Guidelines for Malaria Case Management in Pregnancy among Healthcare Providers and Drug Outlet Dispensers in Rural, Western Kenya [2016]

Malawi

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Perspectives of health care providers on the provision of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in health facilities in Malawi [2015]

• Malaria Journal
  • The use of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy and insecticide-treated bed nets for malaria prevention by women of child-bearing age in eight districts in Malawi [2015]

Mali

• Malaria Journal
  • “There is no free here, you have to pay”: actual and perceived costs as barriers to intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Mali [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Underreporting and Missed Opportunities for Uptake of Intermittent Preventative Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy (IPTp) in Mali [2016]
  • Effectiveness of Antenatal Clinics to Deliver Intermittent Preventive Treatment and Insecticide Treated Nets for the Control of Malaria in Pregnancy in Mali: A Household Survey [2014]
  • Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy with Intermittent Preventive Treatment and Insecticide Treated Nets in Mali: A Quantitative Health Systems Effectiveness Analysis [2013]
  • A Qualitative Health Systems Effectiveness Analysis of the Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy with Intermittent Preventive Treatment and Insecticide Treated Nets in Mali [2013]

Nigeria

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Barriers to and determinants of the use of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Cross River State, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study [2016]

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Determinants of use of insecticide-treated nets among pregnant women in Nigeria [2015]

• Pan African Medical Journal
  • Socio-demographic and regional disparities in utilization of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy - Nigeria demographic health survey 2013 [2019]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Burden of Malaria in Early Pregnancy: A Neglected Problem? [2014]

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

• Lancet Global Health
  • Prevalence of malaria infection in pregnant women compared with children for tracking malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
  • Cost-effectiveness of two versus three or more doses of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria during pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa: a modelling study of meta-analysis and cost data [2015]

• Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Effect of Plasmodium falciparum sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance on the effectiveness of intermittent preventive therapy for malaria in pregnancy in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

• Malaria Journal
  • Cost-effectiveness of malaria preventive treatment for HIV-infected pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa [2017]
  • Factors affecting providers' delivery of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: a five-country analysis of national service provision assessment surveys [2014]
  • Assessment of the consistency of national-level policies and guidelines for malaria in pregnancy in five African countries [2014]
  • Why are IPTp coverage targets so elusive in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review of health system barriers [2013]
  • Prevention and management of malaria during pregnancy: findings from a comparative qualitative study in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi [2013]
  • Ownership and use of insecticide-treated nets during pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa: a review [2013]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Mortality, Morbidity, and Developmental Outcomes in Infants Born to Women Who Received Either Mefloquine or Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine as Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy: A Cohort Study [2016]
  • Factors Affecting the Delivery, Access, and Use of Interventions to Prevent Malaria in Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2013]

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

• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • Impact of Health Systems on the Implementation of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for Malaria in Pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Narrative Synthesis [2020]

• 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

• 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]

Tanzania

• BMC Public Health
  • Predictors for uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) in Tanzania [2015]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Estimating malaria burden among pregnant women using data from antenatal care centres in Tanzania: a population-based study [2019]

Uganda

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • A new strategy and its effect on adherence to intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Uganda [2013]

• Drugs in R&D
  • Trimester-Specific Population Pharmacokinetics and Other Correlates of Variability in Sulphadoxine–Pyrimethamine Disposition Among Ugandan Pregnant Women [2015]

• Malaria Journal
  • Treatment and prevention of malaria in pregnancy in the private health sector in Uganda: implications for patient safety [2016]
  • Intermittent use of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria prevention: a cross-sectional study of knowledge and practices among Ugandan women attending an urban antenatal clinic [2014]

United Kingdom

• 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

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Malaria Surveillance — United States, 2017 [2021]
  • Updated CDC Recommendations for Using Artemether-Lumefantrine for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in Pregnant Women in the United States [2018]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO Guidelines for malaria [2021]
  • Report on antimalarial drug efficacy, resistance and response: 10 years of surveillance (2010-2019) [2020]
  • Implementing malaria in pregnancy programs in the context of World Health Organization recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience [2018]
  • WHO Evidence Review Group: intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) [2012]
  • Assessment of the safety of artemisinin compounds in pregnancy [2007]
  • Malaria: Fact sheet
  • Malaria
  • Iron supplementation with or without folic acid to reduce the risk of postpartum anaemia in malaria-endemic areas
  • Intermittent preventative treatment to reduce the risk of malaria during pregnancy
  • Intermittent iron and folic acid supplementation during pregnancy in malaria-endemic areas
  • Insecticide-treated nets to reduce the risk of malaria in pregnant women
  • Daily iron and folic acid supplementation during pregnancy in malaria-endemic areas

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