Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Maternal and neonatal infections

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

 

Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Asymptomatic bacterial vaginosis [2018]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Screening and Management of Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnancy [2017]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy and risk of spontaneous preterm delivery [2015]
• United States of America
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
    • Evidence on the Benefits and Harms of Screening and Treating Pregnant Women Who Are Asymptomatic for Bacterial Vaginosis: An Update Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2008]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnancy to Prevent Preterm Delivery: Screening [2008]
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    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Bacterial vaginosis

Candidiasis in pregnancy and newborn

• Europe
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Systemic Antifungal Prescribing in Neonates and Children: Outcomes from the Antibiotic Resistance and Prescribing in European Children (ARPEC) Study [2014]
  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
    • ESCMID* guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: prevention and management of invasive infections in neonates and children caused by Candida spp. [2012]
• International
  • Current Medical Mycology
    • Invasive candidiasis and candidemia in pediatric and neonatal patients: A review of current guidelines [2018]
• Japan
  • Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
    • Nationwide survey of treatment for pediatric patients with invasive fungal infections in Japan [2013]
• United States of America
  • Current Opinion in Pediatrics
    • Fluconazole prophylaxis for prevention of invasive candidiasis in infants [2014]
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    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Candidiasis

Chlamydia infection in pregnancy

• Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BioMed Research International
    • Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in Pregnancy: The Global Challenge of Preventing Adverse Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia [2016]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Chlamydia [2018]
• Japan
  • Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis Infection Determined by Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests in Pregnant Women in Japan [2016]
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    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Chlamydia infections

Congenital syphilis, syphilis in pregnancy

• America
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Gestational syphilis and stillbirth in the Americas: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Syphilis [2018]
    • Infectious and congenital syphilis notifications associated with an ongoing outbreak in northern Australia [2016]
    • Notification and management of congenital syphilis in the Northern Territory 2009 to 2014 [2015]
  • Department of Health Northern Territory Government
    • Congenital syphilis guidelines for the Northern Territory. Assessment and management of syphilis in pregnancy and the neonatal period [2015]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Syphilis in pregnancy
• Brazil
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Prevalence of syphilis in pregnancy and prenatal syphilis testing in Brazil: Birth in Brazil study [2014]
  • Revista Paulista de Pediatria
    • In time: the persistence of congenital syphilis in Brazil - More progress needed! [2016]
• Canada
  • Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
    • Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network laboratory guidelines for congenital syphilis and syphilis screening in pregnant women in Canada [2015]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Congenital syphilis: No longer just of historical interest [2018]
• Colombia
  • Revista Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecología
    • Gestational and congenital syphilis situation in Colombia, a challenge to the General System of Social Security in Health [2012]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Congenital syphilis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017 [2019]
• Ghana
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Rollout of rapid point of care tests for antenatal syphilis screening in Ghana: healthcare provider perspectives and experiences [2018]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Screening for Syphilis during Pregnancy [2014]
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • The National Strategy & Operational Guidelines Towards Elimination of Congenital Syphilis [2015]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The amount of penicillin needed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of syphilis [2016]
    • Untreated maternal syphilis and adverse outcomes of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
    • The sound of silence: missing the opportunity to save lives at birth [2013]
    • The prevention and management of congenital syphilis: an overview and recommendations [2004]
    • Prevention of congenital syphilis - time for action [2004]
    • Maternal syphilis: pathophysiology and treatment [2004]
    • Maternal and congenital syphilis programmes: case studies in Bolivia, Kenya and South Africa [2004]
    • Economic and programmatic aspects of congenital syphilis prevention [2004]
    • Diagnostic tools for preventing and managing maternal and congenital syphilis: an overview [2004]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Accelerating Dual Elimination of Mother-To-Child Transmission of Syphilis and HIV Through Use of New Diagnostic Tools [2015]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Shortages of benzathine penicillin for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis: An evaluation from multi-country surveys and stakeholder interviews [2017]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • The Global Epidemiology of Syphilis in the Past Century – A Systematic Review Based on Antenatal Syphilis Prevalence [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Global burden of maternal and congenital syphilis and associated adverse birth outcomes—Estimates for 2016 and progress since 2012 [2019]
    • Estimating Benzathine Penicillin Need for the Treatment of Pregnant Women Diagnosed with Syphilis during Antenatal Care in High-Morbidity Countries [2016]
• Peru
  • PLoS ONE
    • Rapid Syphilis Testing Is Cost-Effective Even in Low-Prevalence Settings: The CISNE-PERU Experience [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
    • Update on management of syphilis in pregnancy [2011]
  • HSC Public Health Agency
    • Syphilis infection in pregnancy (professional guidance 2018) [2018]
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: A Reaffirmation Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2018]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Syphilis in Pregnancy [2015]
    • Increase in Incidence of Congenital Syphilis — United States, 2012–2014 [2015]
    • Congenital Syphilis [2015]
    • Congenital Syphilis --- United States, 2003--2008 [2010]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Women: Screening [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO guideline on syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant women [2017]
    • Global burden of maternal and congenital syphilis in 2008 and 2012: a health systems modelling study [2016]
    • Global Estimates of Syphilis in Pregnancy and Associated Adverse Outcomes: Analysis of Multinational Antenatal Surveillance Data [2013]
    • Investment case for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of syphilis [2012]
    • Methods for surveillance and monitoring of congenital syphilis elimination within existing systems [2011]
    • The global elimination of congenital syphilis: rationale and strategy for action [2007]
    • Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of Syphilis (Congenital Syphilis)
    • Congenital syphilis - Data by country
• Zambia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Scaling Down to Scale Up: A Health Economic Analysis of Integrating Point-of-Care Syphilis Testing into Antenatal Care in Zambia during Pilot and National Rollout Implementation [2015]
    • Introduction of Syphilis Point-of-Care Tests, from Pilot Study to National Programme Implementation in Zambia: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Workers’ Perspectives on Testing, Training and Quality Assurance [2015]
    • Finding a Needle in the Haystack: The Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment during Pregnancy to Prevent Congenital Syphilis in Kalomo District of Zambia [2014]
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  • Guidelines
    • Syphilis
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Cytomegalovirus

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Cytomegalovirus [2018]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Prevention of congenital cytomeglovirus (CMV) infection [2019]
• Canada
  • Government of Alberta
    • Public health notifiable disease management guidelines: Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV) [2018]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Cytomegalovirus
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Cytomegalovirus Infection in Pregnancy [2018]
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Primary Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) Infection in Pregnancy [2017]
  • GMS Hygiene and Infection Control
    • Are female daycare workers at greater risk of cytomegalovirus infection? A secondary data analysis of CMV seroprevalence between 2010 and 2013 in Hamburg, Germany [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cytomegalovirus (CMV) seroprevalence in the adult population of Germany [2018]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
    • Cytomegalovirus infection: An Indian perspective [2009]
• International
  • F1000Research
    • Maternal and fetal cytomegalovirus infection: diagnosis, management, and prevention [2018]
• Iran
  • Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences
    • Meta-analysis of cytomegalovirus seroprevalence in volunteer blood donors and healthy subjects in Iran from 1992 to 2013 [2015]
  • Iranian Journal of Public Health
    • Seroprevalence of Cytomegalovirus among Women of Reproductive Age in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • CMV
  • Medicine
    • Cytomegalovirus Infection in Ireland: Seroprevalence, HLA Class I Alleles, and Implications [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Public Health England
    • UK SMI V 28: investigation of cytomegalovirus infection
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Update on Treatment [2017]
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Congenital CMV Infection
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cytomegalovirus IgM Seroprevalence among Women of Reproductive Age in the United States [2016]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Diagnosis and antenatal management of congenital cytomegalovirus infection [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Report of the WHO collaborative study to establish the first international standard for detection of IgG antibodies to cytomegalovirus (anti-CMV IgG) [2017]
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    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Gonorrhea in pregnancy and newborn

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Gonorrhoea [2018]
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Ocular Prophylaxis for Gonococcal Ophthalmia Neonatorum: A Reaffirmation Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2019]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Ocular Prophylaxis for Gonococcal Ophthalmia Neonatorum: Preventive Medication [2019]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Ceftriaxone – safety in neonates [2008]
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    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Gonorrhea

Group B streptococcal infections

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Group B streptococcus [2018]
  • NSW Ministry of Health
    • Maternal Group B Streptococcus (GBS) and minimisation of neonatal early-onset GBS sepsis [2017]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Early onset Group B streptococcal disease
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Maternal Group B Streptococcus in pregnancy screening and management [2016]
• Canada
  • Government of Alberta
    • Public health disease management guidelines : streptococcal disease – group B, newborn [2018]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • The Prevention of Early-Onset Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease [2018]
    • Management of Group B Streptococcal Bacteriuria in Pregnancy [2018]
• Developing countries
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Variation in Reported Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease Incidence in Developing Countries [2012]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
    • Prevention of perinatal group B streptococcal infections: A review with an Indian perspective [2014]
• International
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Group B Streptococcal Disease Worldwide for Pregnant Women, Stillbirths, and Children: Why, What, and How to Undertake Estimates? [2017]
  • Vaccine
    • WHO consultation on group B Streptococcus vaccine development: Report from a meeting held on 27–28 April 2016 [2016]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Group B Streptococcal Disease
• Italy
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Strategies for preventing group B streptococcal infections in newborns: a nation-wide survey of Italian policies [2017]
• Japan
  • BMC Research Notes
    • A nationwide survey of the opinions of paediatricians regarding the management of neonates born to women with group B Streptococcus in Japanese maternity homes [2019]
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Early-onset and late-onset group B streptococcal disease in Japan: a nationwide surveillance study, 2004–2010 [2013]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Vaccine
    • Ethical considerations for designing GBS maternal vaccine efficacy trials in low-middle income countries [2015]
• Netherlands
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
    • Epidemiology of neonatal group B streptococcal disease in the Netherlands before and after introduction of guidelines for prevention [2007]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Barriers and facilitators related to the uptake of four strategies to prevent neonatal early-onset group B haemolytic streptococcus disease: a qualitative study [2017]
    • Implementation of a cost-effective strategy to prevent neonatal early-onset group B haemolytic streptococcus disease in the Netherlands [2013]
• New Zealand
  • New Zealand Medical Journal
    • The prevention of early-onset neonatal group B streptococcus infection: New Zealand Consensus Guidelines 2014 [2015]
• Portugal
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Epidemiological surveillance of colonising group B Streptococcus epidemiology in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley regions, Portugal (2005 to 2012): emergence of a new epidemic type IV/clonal complex 17 clone [2014]
• South Africa
  • BMC Research Notes
    • Antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from pregnant women in Garankuwa, South Africa [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in South Africa: Importance of Surveillance Methodology [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Prevention of early-onset Group B Streptococcal disease – the Northern Ireland experience [2014]
  • Public Health England
    • SMI B 58: detection of carriage of group B streptococci
    • Group B streptococcal infections: guidance, data and analysis
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Group B Streptococcal Disease, Early-onset [2017]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Management of Infants at Risk for Group B Streptococcal Disease [2019]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Prevention of Early-Onset Group B Streptococcal Disease in Newborns [2019]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease. Revised Guidelines from CDC, 2010 [2010]
    • Group B Strep
  • Clinics in Perinatology
    • Antibiotic Stewardship: Reassessment of Guidelines for Management of Neonatal Sepsis [2014]
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    • Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of the Xpert GBS LB Assay for Detection of Group B Streptococcus in Prenatal Screening Specimens [2014]
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Group B streptococcus (GBS)
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Chorioamnionitis and Culture-Confirmed Early-onset Neonatal Infections [2015]
  • Pediatrics
    • 2010 Perinatal GBS Prevention Guideline and Resource Utilization [2014]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO preferred product characteristics for group B streptococcus vaccines [2017]
    • Group B streptococcus vaccine development technology roadmap: priority activities for development, testing, licensure and global availability of group B streptococcus vaccines [2017]
    • WHO recommendation on intrapartum antibiotic administration to women with group B Streptococcus (GBS) colonization for prevention of early neonatal GBS infection [2015]
    • WHO recommendation against routine vaginal cleansing with chlorhexidine during labour in women with group B Streptococcus (GBS) colonization for prevention of early neonatal GBS infection [2015]
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    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Hepatitis in pregnancy and newborn

• Africa
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty
    • Gender development and hepatitis B and C infections among pregnant women in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • The status of hepatitis B control in the African region [2017]
    • Is hepatitis B birth dose vaccine needed in Africa? [2017]
• Arab countries, Africa
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Hepatitis B and C virus infections among pregnant women in Arab and African countries [2013]
• Asia, Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Informal Consultation on Validation of Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B and Syphilis : Developing the Method for Validating Hepatitis B Virus Elimination, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27-28 February 2018 [2018]
• Australia
  • Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
    • Managing hepatitis B virus in pregnancy and children [2018]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Hepatitis C [2018]
    • Hepatitis B [2018]
    • Prevention of perinatal hepatitis B virus transmission: are we following guidelines? [2017]
  • NSW Ministry of Health
    • Neonatal Hepatitis B Prevention and Vaccination Program [2017]
  • SA Health
    • Hepatitis B in pregnancy
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Management of Hepatitis C in pregnancy [2016]
    • Management of Hepatitis B in pregnancy [2016]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Hepatitis E infection during pregnancy [2015]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • The Reproductive Care of Women Living With Hepatitis C Infection [2017]
    • Hepatitis B and Pregnancy [2017]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Cesarean section to prevent mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus in China: A meta-analysis [2017]
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Viral hepatitis vaccination during pregnancy [2016]
  • Journal of Clinical Virology
    • Management of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus: Propositions and challenges [2016]
• Egypt
  • Hepatology
    • Estimation of hepatitis C virus infections resulting from vertical transmission in Egypt [2015]
• Hong Kong
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Age-specific prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection in young pregnant women, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China [2014]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Improving birth dose coverage of hepatitis B vaccine [2006]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • Hepatitis B and C in pregnancy: a review and recommendations for care [2014]
• Iran
  • International Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Hepatitis B surface antigen prevalence in pregnant women: A cross-sectional survey in Iran [2014]
• North Korea
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Hepatitis B Vaccination Strategies to Prevent Perinatal Transmission in North Korea: Selective Vaccination vs. Universal Vaccination [2016]
• Slovenia
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Hepatitis C virus infection among pregnant women in Slovenia: study on 31,849 samples obtained in four screening rounds during 1999, 2003, 2009 and 2013 [2015]
• Switzerland
  • Journal of Virus Eradication
    • Vertical transmission of hepatitis C: towards universal antenatal screening in the era of new direct acting antivirals (DAAs)? Short review and analysis of the situation in Switzerland [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Management of hepatitis B in pregnant women and infants: a multicentre audit from four London hospitals [2013]
  • Public Health England
    • SMI V 8: vertical and perinatal transmission of hepatitis C
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Pregnant Women: An Updated Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2019]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Elimination of Perinatal Hepatitis B: Providing the First Vaccine Dose Within 24 Hours of Birth [2017]
  • American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
    • HCV in Pregnancy [2018]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • National Trends in Hepatitis C Infection by Opioid Use Disorder Status Among Pregnant Women at Delivery Hospitalization — United States, 2000–2015 [2019]
    • Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Women Giving Birth — Tennessee and United States, 2009–2014 [2017]
    • Increased Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Detection in Women of Childbearing Age and Potential Risk for Vertical Transmission — United States and Kentucky, 2011–2014 [2016]
    • Update: Shortened Interval for Postvaccination Serologic Testing of Infants Born to Hepatitis B-Infected Mothers [2015]
    • Postvaccination Serologic Testing Results for Infants Aged =24 Months Exposed to Hepatitis B Virus at Birth — United States, 2008–2011 [2012]
  • Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
    • Prevention of Perinatal Hepatitis B Virus Transmission [2014]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Hepatitis C in pregnancy: screening, treatment, and management [2017]
    • #38: Hepatitis B in pregnancy screening, treatment, and prevention of vertical transmission [2016]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Pregnant Women: Screening [2019]
  • World Journal of Hepatology
    • Chronic hepatitis B infection in pregnancy [2015]
• Western Pacific
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Progress toward hepatitis B control and elimination of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus — Western Pacific Region, 2005–2017 [2019]
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    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Hepatitis

Herpes infections in pregnancy and newborn

• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Acyclovir versus Valacyclovir for Herpes Virus in Children and Pregnant Women: A Review of the Clinical Evidence and Guidelines [2014]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Prevention and management of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections [2018]
  • Government of Alberta
    • Public health notifiable disease management guidelines: Neonatal Herpes Simplex Infection [2018]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Guidelines for the Management of Herpes Simplex Virus in Pregnancy [2017]
• International
  • Lancet Global Health
    • First estimates of the global and regional incidence of neonatal herpes infection [2017]
• United Kingdom
  • British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
    • Herpes in Pregnancy [2014]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Management of Genital Herpes in Pregnancy [2014]
  • Wales Neonatal Network
    • Guideline for the Management of Neonatal Herpes Infection [2017]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Guidance on Management of Asymptomatic Neonates Born to Women With Active Genital Herpes Lesions [2013]
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  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Herpes

HIV/AIDS in pregnancy and newborn

• Afghanistan
  • Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan
    • Prevention of Parent-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Afghanistan [2009]
• Africa
  • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
    • Lessons Learned From Early Implementation of Option B+: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Experience in 11 African Countries [2014]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Impact of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant Women and Their Children in Africa: HIV Resistance and Treatment Outcomes [2013]
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission - Technical update [2018]
• Angola
  • PLoS ONE
    • Effectiveness of a Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Programme in an Urban Hospital in Angola [2012]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Human immunodeficiency virus [2018]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • The evidence for a change in antenatal HIV screening policy in Australia [2006]
• Brazil
  • Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • HIV-1 mother-to-child transmission in Brazil (1994–2016): a time series modeling [2019]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • HIV Prevalence among Pregnant Women in Brazil: A National Survey [2016]
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Reporting of HIV-infected pregnant women: estimates from a Brazilian study [2018]
• Burkina Faso
  • HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care
    • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV: a review of the achievements and challenges in Burkina-Faso [2019]
• Cameroon
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Estimating mother-to-child HIV transmission rates in Cameroon in 2011: a computer simulation approach [2016]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • HIV in pregnancy: Identification of intrapartum and perinatal HIV exposures [2019]
  • CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
    • Intrapartum care of the HIV-positive woman [2014]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • HIV Screening in Pregnancy [2017]
    • Guidelines for the Care of Pregnant Women Living With HIV and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission: Executive Summary [2014]
• China
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Barriers and enablers of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS program in China: a systematic review and policy implications [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Uptake of Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Programs in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2015]
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections
    • Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission cascade in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
• Democratic Republic of Congo
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
    • Nurses’ compliance with prevention of mother-to-child transmission national guidelines in selected sites in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo [2015]
  • AIDS
    • Temporal changes in the outcomes of HIV-exposed infants in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo during a period of rapidly evolving guidelines for care (2007–2013) [2014]
  • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
    • Maternal Combination Antiretroviral Therapy is Associated with Improved Retention of HIV-Exposed Infants in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo [2015]
• Developing countries
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Prevention and Treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Resource-Limited Settings [2005]
    • Rates, barriers and outcomes of HIV serostatus disclosure among women in developing countries: implications for prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes [2004]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Community-based approaches for prevention of mother to child transmission in resource-poor settings: a social ecological review [2012]
• Dominican Republic
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Progress towards Elimination of HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission in the Dominican Republic from 1999 to 2011 [2012]
• Eastern Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Increased prevalence of pregnancy and comparative risk of program attrition among individuals starting HIV treatment in East Africa [2018]
• Eastern Europe, Central Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in low-prevalence and concentrated epidemic settings in Eastern Europe and Central Asia [2011]
• El Salvador
  • PLoS ONE
    • Disparities in HIV Screening among Pregnant Women – El Salvador, 2011 [2013]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
• Europe
  • European Journal of Public Health
    • National Guidelines for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV across Europe – how do countries differ? [2013]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Children and young people with perinatal HIV in Europe: epidemiological situation in 2014 and implications for the future [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • 2012 Revision - Protocol 10. Prevention of HIV transmission from HIV-infected mothers to their infants [2012]
• France
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Antenatal HIV screening: results from the National Perinatal Survey, France, 2016 [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Association between Prenatal Exposure to Antiretroviral Therapy and Birth Defects: An Analysis of the French Perinatal Cohort Study (ANRS CO1/CO11) [2014]
• Germany
  • EuroSurveillance
    • HIV infections and HIV testing during pregnancy, Germany, 1993 to 2016 [2019]
• Germany, Austria
  • European Journal of Medical Research
    • German-austrian recommendations for HIV1-therapy in pregnancy and in HIV1-exposed newborn - update 2008 [2009]
• Ghana
  • Ghana Medical Journal
    • Review of Antenatal-Linked Voluntary Counseling and HIV Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons and Options for Ghana [2005]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Towards elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Ghana: an analysis of national programme data [2016]
• India
  • BMC Public Health
    • Systematic review of public health research on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in India with focus on provision and utilization of cascade of PMTCT services [2012]
• International
  • AIDS
    • Elective cesarean section for women living with HIV: a systematic review of risks and benefits [2017]
  • BMJ
    • Antiretroviral therapy in pregnant women living with HIV: a clinical practice guideline [2017]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The incremental cost of switching from Option B to Option B+ for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2014]
    • Integrating antiretroviral therapy into antenatal care and maternal and child health settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
    • Country adaptation of the 2010 World Health Organization recommendations for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2012]
    • Reconsidering empirical cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for infants exposed to HIV infection [2004]
  • International AIDS Society
    • Making Motherhood and Childhood Safer: Scaling Up AIDS Services Accelerates Progress Towards All Health Goals [2010]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Retest and treat: a review of national HIV retesting guidelines to inform elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission (EMTCT) efforts [2019]
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    • Community strategies that improve care and retention along the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV cascade: a review [2012]
  • UNAIDS
    • 2015 progress report on the global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children and keeping their mothers alive [2015]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Elimination of mother-to-child transmission
• Kenya
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • Progress Toward Eliminating Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya: Review of Treatment Guideline Uptake and Pediatric Transmission at Four Government Hospitals Between 2010 and 2012 [2016]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Kenya: challenges to implementation [2014]
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Evaluation of Kenya’s readiness to transition from sentinel surveillance to routine HIV testing for antenatal clinic-based HIV surveillance [2016]
• Latvia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Mission to assess readiness for validation of the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV Latvia, 23-27 May 2016 [2016]
• Lesotho
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Lesotho's Minimum PMTCT Package: lessons learned for combating vertical HIV transmission using co-packaged medicines [2012]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
    • Use of antiretrovirals during pregnancy and breastfeeding in low-income and middle-income countries [2010]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Uptake of Integrated Perinatal Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2013]
• Malawi
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Patterns of caesarean section in HIV infected and non-infected women in Malawi: is caesarean section used for PMTCT? [2018]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a cross-sectional study in Malawi [2018]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Impact of an Innovative Approach to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV — Malawi, July 2011–September 2012 [2013]
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Barriers to successful implementation of prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programmes in Malawi and Nigeria: a critical literature review study [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Option B+ for HIV Prevention and Treatment of Mothers and Children in Malawi [2013]
• Malaysia
  • Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore
    • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in pregnancy: a review of the guidelines for preventing mother-to-child transmission in Malaysia [2012]
• Middle East, North Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: conceptual framework for the Middle East and North Africa [2012]
• Mozambique
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • What does high and low have to do with it? Performance classification to identify health system factors associated with effective prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV delivery in Mozambique [2014]
• Myanmar
  • International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS
    • Progress and Challenges of Implementing Decentralized HIV Testing For Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV – Myanmar [2019]
• Netherlands
  • PLoS ONE
    • High HIV Prevalence among Asylum Seekers Who Gave Birth in the Netherlands: A Nationwide Study Based on Antenatal HIV Tests [2015]
• New Zealand
  • National Screening Unit
    • HIV Testing in Pregnancy
• Nigeria
  • BMC Public Health
    • Socio-cultural factors influencing the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria: a synthesis of the literature [2014]
  • Nursing Research and Practice
    • Translating Research into Practice in Low-Resource Countries: Progress in Prevention of Maternal to Child Transmission of HIV in Nigeria [2013]
• Republic of the Congo
  • New Microbiologica
    • Pregnancy outcomes following exposure to efavirenz-based antiretroviral therapy in the Republic of Congo [2015]
• Rwanda
  • BMC Public Health
    • Impact of maternal ART on mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV at six weeks postpartum in Rwanda [2018]
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • HIV surveillance in Rwanda: readiness assessment to transition from antenatal care-based to prevention of mother-to-child transmission program-based HIV surveillance [2016]
  • World Health Organization
    • Gateways to integration - a case study from Rwanda: Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS [2013]
• South Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Improved pregnancy outcomes with increasing antiretroviral coverage in South Africa [2016]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Modelling cost-effectiveness of tenofovir for prevention of mother to child transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in South Africa [2019]
    • Missing HIV prevention opportunities in South African children - A 7-year review [2014]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa [2013]
  • Current HIV/AIDS Reports
    • Intersecting Epidemics Among Pregnant Women: Alcohol Use, Interpersonal Violence, and HIV Infection in South Africa [2013]
  • Department of Health South Africa
    • The National Antenatal Sentinel HIV prevalence Survey, South Africa, 2013 [2015]
    • The 2013 National Antenatal Sentinel HIV Prevalence Survey South Africa [2015]
    • The 2012 National Antenatal Sentinel HIV and Herpes Simplex type-2 prevalence Survey in South Africa [2013]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Toward elimination of mother–to–child transmission of HIV in South Africa: how best to monitor early infant infections within the Prevention of Mother–to–Child Transmission Program [2017]
    • Population–level effectiveness of PMTCT Option A on early mother–to–child (MTCT) transmission of HIV in South Africa: implications for eliminating MTCT [2016]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Optimal timing of viral load monitoring during pregnancy to predict viraemia at delivery in HIV-infected women initiating ART in South Africa: a simulation study [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Growth of HIV-Exposed Uninfected Infants in the First 6 Months of Life in South Africa: The IeDEA-SA Collaboration [2016]
    • Point-of-Care CD4 Testing to Inform Selection of Antiretroviral Medications in South African Antenatal Clinics: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [2015]
  • South African Medical Research Council
    • Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Programme in South Africa [2013]
• Spain
  • Medicine
    • New diagnoses of human immunodeficiency virus infection in the Spanish pediatric HIV Cohort (CoRISpe) from 2004 to 2013 [2017]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Implementing prevention policies for mother-to-child transmission of HIV in rural Malawi, South Africa and United Republic of Tanzania, 2013–2016 [2019]
    • Involving both parents in HIV prevention during pregnancy and breastfeeding [2018]
    • Public sector services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection: a micro-costing survey in Namibia and Rwanda [2013]
  • Current HIV/AIDS Reports
    • Adherence to HIV Care after Pregnancy among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Falling Off the Cliff of the Treatment Cascade [2015]
    • Antiretroviral drug regimens to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a review of scientific, program, and policy advances for sub-Saharan Africa [2013]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Elimination of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV Infection: The Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition Model [2015]
  • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
    • Improving Retention in Care Among Pregnant Women and Mothers Living With HIV: Lessons From INSPIRE and Implications for Future WHO Guidance and Monitoring [2017]
    • Towards Comprehensive Women's Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa: Addressing Intersections Between HIV, Reproductive and Maternal Health [2014]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Antenatal care and uptake of HIV testing among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study [2016]
    • Barriers and facilitating factors to the uptake of antiretroviral drugs for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2013]
  • Medicine
    • Implementation effectiveness of revised (post-2010) World Health Organization guidelines on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV using routinely collected data in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic literature review [2017]
  • Public Health Reviews
    • The impact of programs for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV on health care services and systems in sub-Saharan Africa - A review [2018]
  • South African Medical Research Council
    • Scaling up PMTCT impact assessments in the context of improving global maternal and child health and survival in sub-Saharan Africa [2017]
    • External mid-term, formative evaluation of the optimizing HIV treatment access (OHTA) for pregnant and breastfeeding women initiative in Uganda, Malawi, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [2015]
• Swaziland
  • World Health Organization
    • Gateways to integration - a case study from Swaziland: Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS [2011]
• Tanzania
  • BMC Public Health
    • Development and promotion of a national website to improve dissemination of information related to the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) in Tanzania [2015]
  • Global Health Action
    • Under-five mortality and maternal HIV status in Tanzania: analysis of trends between 2003 and 2012 using AIDS Indicator Survey data [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Hematological Changes in Women and Infants Exposed to an AZT-Containing Regimen for Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV in Tanzania [2013]
• Thailand
  • Asian Biomedicine: Research, Reviews and News
    • Thai national guidelines for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus 2017 [2017]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV — Thailand [2016]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Uptake of early infant diagnosis in Thailand’s national program for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission and linkage to care, 2008–2011 [2016]
  • Journal of Virus Eradication
    • History of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Thailand [2016]
  • Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
    • Compliance with and outcomes of CD4-based national guidelines for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV for Thailand, 2006-2007 [2013]
• Trinidad and Tobago
  • Ministry of Health Trinidad and Tobago
    • Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Policy [2010]
• Uganda
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of combination antiretroviral therapy for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Uganda [2012]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • UK national clinical audit: management of pregnancies in women with HIV [2017]
  • British HIV Association
    • BHIVA guidelines for the management of HIV in pregnancy and postpartum 2018 (2019 second interim update) [2019]
  • HSC Public Health Agency
    • Guidelines for the Management of HIV Positive Pregnant Women in Northern Ireland [2013]
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for HIV Infection in Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2019]
  • AIDS
    • Missed opportunities for prevention of mother-to-child transmission in the United States [2015]
  • AIDS Patient Care and STDs
    • Trends in Neonatal Prophylaxis and Predictors of Combination Antiretroviral Prophylaxis in US Infants from 1990 to 2015 [2018]
    • Trends in Antiretroviral Drug Use During Pregnancy Among HIV-Infected Women on Medicaid: 2000–2007 [2014]
  • AIDSinfo
    • Recommendations for the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant Women with HIV Infection and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV Transmission in the United States
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • HIV Testing and Prophylaxis to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission in the United States [2014]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Prenatal and Perinatal Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing - Expanded Recommendations [2018]
    • Labor and Delivery Management of Women With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection [2018]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Pregnant Women, Infants, and Children
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Management of HIV Infection during Pregnancy in the United States: Updated Evidence-Based Recommendations and Future Potential Practices [2016]
    • The Effects of Viral Load Burden on Pregnancy Loss among HIV-Infected Women in the United States [2015]
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Perinatal Transmission of HIV
  • New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
    • Perinatal HIV care
  • PLoS ONE
    • Mode of Delivery among HIV-Infected Pregnant Women in Philadelphia, 2005-2013 [2015]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO recommendation: Elective C-section should not be routinely recommended to women living with HIV [2018]
    • Innovating and strengthening the postnatal package of care for HIV-exposed infants: ensuring comprehensive services for the first two years of life [2018]
    • WHO technical brief: preventing HIV during pregnancy and breastfeeding in the context of PrEP [2017]
    • Monitoring & evaluation framework for antiretroviral treatment for pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV and their infants [2015]
    • Guidelines for conducting HIV surveillance among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics based on routine programme data [2015]
    • Safety of efavirenz in the first trimester of pregnancy: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]
    • Antiretroviral treatment for pregnant and breastfeeding women – the shifting paradigm [2014]
    • Toolkit, expanding and simplifying treatment for pregnant women living with HIV [2013]
    • Surveillance of antiretroviral drug toxicity during pregnancy and breastfeeding [2013]
    • Guidelines for assessing the utility of data from prevention of mother-to-child transmission [2013]
    • Use of efavirenz during pregnancy: A public health perspective [2012]
    • Use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants [2012]
    • Report of the meeting of the paediatric working group developing an optimized list of paediatric ARV formulations [2012]
    • Preventing HIV and unintended pregnancies: strategic framework 2011-2015 [2012]
    • Measuring the impact of national PMTCT programmes: Towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive [2012]
    • Male involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2012]
    • Global monitoring framework and strategy for the Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive [2012]
    • Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2011]
    • Towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: report of a WHO technical consultation, 9-11 November 2010, Geneva, Switzerland [2011]
    • Meeting report: 2011 annual meeting of the interagency task team on prevention and treatment of HIV infection in pregnant women, mothers and their children [2011]
    • Annual meeting of the Interagency Task Team on Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Children [2011]
    • Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants. Version 2 [2010]
    • PMTCT strategic vision 2010-2015 : preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals : moving towards the elimination of paediatric HIV, December 2009 [2010]
    • Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants. Recommendations for a public health approach. 2010 Revision [2010]
    • Technical consultation on the integration of HIV interventions into maternal, newborn and child health services [2008]
    • Guidance on global scale-up of the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV : towards universal access for women, infants and young children and eliminating HIV and AIDS among children [2007]
    • Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants: towards universal access. Recommendations for a public health approach. 2006 Version [2006]
    • HIV and nutrition: pregnant and lactating women [2005]
    • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Children: Guidelines for Women Living with HIV/AIDS and Their Children in Resource-Constrained Settings [2004]
    • HIV-infected women and their families: Psychosocial support and related issues [2003]
    • New data on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and their policy implications [2001]
    • Vitamin A supplementation in HIV-infected women during pregnancy
    • Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
    • Micronutrient supplementation in HIV-infected women during pregnancy
• Zambia
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Estimating levels of HIV testing coverage and use in prevention of mother-to-child transmission among women of reproductive age in Zambia [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Longitudinal adherence to antiretroviral drugs for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zambia [2015]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Universal combination antiretroviral regimens to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in rural Zambia: a two-round cross-sectional study [2014]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Increasing Proportion of HIV-Infected Pregnant Zambian Women Attending Antenatal Care Are Already on Antiretroviral Therapy (2010–2015) [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Health Outcomes and Cost Impact of the New WHO 2013 Guidelines on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Zambia [2014]
• Zimbabwe
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Cost-effectiveness of World Health Organization 2010 Guidelines for Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Zimbabwe [2013]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • What Will It Take to Eliminate Pediatric HIV? Reaching WHO Target Rates of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Zimbabwe: A Model-Based Analysis [2012]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Evaluating the Impact of Zimbabwe’s Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Program: Population-Level Estimates of HIV-Free Infant Survival Pre-Option A [2015]
    • Integration of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Postpartum Services with Other HIV Care and Treatment Services within the Maternal and Child Health Setting in Zimbabwe, 2012 [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • HIV/AIDS in children and adolescents
    • HIV/AIDS and breastfeeding/infant feeding
    • HIV/AIDS

Infections in pregnancy

• America
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • EMTCT Plus. Framework for elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B, and Chagas [2017]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Listeriosis - CDNA National Guidelines for Public Health Units [2018]
  • SA Health
    • Sepsis in Pregnancy
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
    • Management of Perinatal Infections [2014]
  • Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
    • SOMANZ guidelines for the investigation and management sepsis in pregnancy [2017]
• Brazil
  • BMJ Open
    • Dengue during pregnancy and live birth outcomes: a cohort of linked data from Brazil [2019]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Systematic review: Prevalence of Chagas disease in pregnant women and congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in Brazil: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]
• Canada
  • Government of Alberta
    • Public health disease management guidelines : Listeriosis [2018]
    • Alberta prenatal screening program for select communicable diseases [2018]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Management of Varicella Infection (Chickenpox) in Pregnancy [2018]
    • Management Guidelines for Obstetric Patients and Neonates Born to Mothers With Suspected or Probable Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) [2017]
    • Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Obstetric Procedures [2017]
    • SOGC Committee Opinion on the Management of a Pregnant Woman Exposed to or Infected With Ebola Virus Disease in Canada [2015]
    • Parvovirus B19 Infection in Pregnancy [2014]
• China
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Systematic review of human listeriosis in China, 1964–2010 [2013]
• Colombia
  • Infectio
    • First Colombian consensus on congenital Chagas and clinical approach for women of child-bearing age diagnosed with Chagas [2017]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Varicella zoster virus and pregnancy [2018]
    • Fever during labor [2018]
• Ecuador
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • A National Survey to Determine Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection among Pregnant Women in Ecuador [2015]
• El Salvador
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Mother-to-Child Transmission of Chagas Disease in El Salvador [2015]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of antenatal screening for HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis and rubella susceptibility [2017]
    • Antenatal screening for HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis and rubella susceptibility in the EU/EEA – addressing the vulnerable populations [2017]
    • Antenatal screening approaches effective in preventing MTCT of HIV, HBV, syphilis and rubella in vulnerable populations [2017]
    • Antenatal screening for HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis and rubella susceptibility in the EU/EEA [2016]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Screening for Coxiella burnetii infection during pregnancy: pros and cons according to the Wilson and Jungner criteria [2012]
    • Prevention of congenital and perinatal infections [2009]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Control and management of congenital Chagas disease in Europe and other non-endemic countries: current policies and practices [2016]
• France
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Pregnancy-related listeriosis in France, 1984 to 2011, with a focus on 606 cases from 1999 to 2011 [2014]
• Haiti
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Cholera in Pregnancy: Outcomes from a Specialized Cholera Treatment Unit for Pregnant Women in Léogâne, Haiti [2013]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Praziquantel for the treatment of schistosomiasis during human pregnancy [2018]
  • Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    • Maternal Infections e-Learning Course [2015]
  • Médecins Sans Frontières
    • Ebola viral disease and pregnancy [2015]
    • Cholera in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Fetal, Neonatal, and Maternal Mortality [2015]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Towards a consensus definition of maternal sepsis: results of a systematic review and expert consultation [2017]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Pregnancy
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • TORCH testing in Obstetrics and Neonatology [2017]
    • Listeriosis in Pregnancy [2015]
    • Chicken Pox in Pregnancy [2015]
    • Bacterial Infections Specific to Pregnancy [2015]
    • Parvovirus B19 Exposure Infection during Pregnancy [2014]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Global Women's Health
    • Recognition and Management of Maternal Sepsis in Low and Middle-Income Countries: What do we know and where are the Gaps? [2018]
• Mongolia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Burden of Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Pregnant Women and Infants Under 6 Months in Mongolia: A Prospective Cohort Study [2016]
• Mozambique
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The triple threat of pregnancy, HIV infection and malaria: reported causes of maternal mortality in two nationwide health facility assessments in Mozambique, 2007 and 2012 [2015]
• Namibia
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Measles immunity among pregnant women aged 15–44 years in Namibia, 2008 and 2010 [2016]
• Philippines
  • PLoS ONE
    • Fear of Birth Defects Is a Major Barrier to Soil-Transmitted Helminth Treatment (STH) for Pregnant Women in the Philippines [2014]
• Spain
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Listeriosis in Spain based on hospitalisation records, 1997 to 2015: need for greater awareness [2019]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Medicine
    • Achieving development goals for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa through integrated antenatal care: barriers and challenges [2016]
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty
    • Development, coinfection, and the syndemics of pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • A Multi-Country Cross-Sectional Study of Vaginal Carriage of Group B Streptococci (GBS) and Escherichia coli in Resource-Poor Settings: Prevalences and Risk Factors [2016]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Heterogeneity in testing practices for infections during pregnancy: national survey across Switzerland [2016]
• Tanzania
  • Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety
    • Implementation of co-trimoxazole preventive therapy policy for malaria in HIV-infected pregnant women in the public health facilities in Tanzania [2016]
• Uganda
  • Parasitology
    • Treatment with anthelminthics during pregnancy: what gains and what risks for the mother and child? [2011]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal morbidity and mortality from severe sepsis: a national cohort study [2016]
  • Public Health England
    • Viral rash in pregnancy
    • Rash in pregnancy
    • NHS infectious diseases in pregnancy screening (IDPS) programme
    • Investigation of pregnant women exposed to rash illness
    • Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening: clinical guidance
    • Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening: care pathway
    • Ebola in pregnancy: information for healthcare workers
    • Analysing antenatal infections national data: methods
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Chickenpox in Pregnancy [2015]
    • Sepsis in Pregnancy, Bacterial [2012]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Assessment and Treatment of Pregnant Women With Suspected or Confirmed Influenza [2018]
    • Sulfonamides, Nitrofurantoin, and Risk of Birth Defects [2017]
    • Intrapartum Management of Intraamniotic Infection [2017]
    • Management of Pregnant Women With Presumptive Exposure to Listeria monocytogenes [2014]
    • Obstetrician-Gynecologists and Perinatal Infections: A Review of Studies of the Collaborative Ambulatory Research Network (2005–2009) [2010]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of infections during pregnancy: implementation of recommended interventions, United States, 2003–2004 [2012]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Vital Signs: Burden and Prevention of Influenza and Pertussis Among Pregnant Women and Infants — United States [2019]
    • Special Considerations for Prophylaxis for and Treatment of Anthrax in Pregnant and Postpartum Women [2014]
    • Recommendations for Obstetric Health Care Providers Related to Use of Antiviral Medications in the Treatment and Prevention of Influenza
    • Pregnant Travelers
    • Pregnancy and HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • A First Look at Chorioamnionitis Management Practice Variation among US Obstetricians [2012]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO recommendation on antibiotics for uncomplicated vaginal birth [2018]
    • Statement on maternal sepsis [2017]
    • WHO recommendation on preventive anthelminthic treatment [2016]
    • WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of maternal peripartum infections [2015]
    • WHO recommendation on a simple regimen such as ampicillin and once-daily gentamicin as first-line antibiotics for the treatment of chorioamnionitis [2015]
    • WHO recommendation against routine antibiotic prophylaxis during the second or third trimester to all women with the aim of reducing infectious morbidity [2015]
    • Saving mothers and newborn lives in the face of the devastating Ebola outbreak [2014]
    • Capacity building workshop for the Global Fund proposal writing to include MNH service delivery area for health systems strengthening [2009]
    • Global Maternal and Neonatal Sepsis Initiative
    • Deworming in pregnant women
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Zika virus infection in pregnancy and newborn
    • Vaccines in pregnancy
    • Urinary tract infections in pregnancy
    • Tuberculosis in pregnancy
    • Trichomoniasis in pregnancy
    • Toxoplasmosis
    • Tetanus in pregnancy and newborn
    • Sexually transmitted infections in pregnancy
    • Rubella
    • Postpartum infections
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Neonatal infections
    • Malaria in pregnancy
    • Influenza A (H1N1) in pregnancy
    • Herpes infections in pregnancy and newborn
    • Hepatitis in pregnancy and newborn
    • Hepatitis
    • HIV/AIDS in pregnancy and newborn
    • HIV/AIDS
    • Group B streptococcal infections
    • Gonorrhea in pregnancy and newborn
    • Genital infections, sexually transmitted diseases
    • Cytomegalovirus
    • Congenital syphilis, syphilis in pregnancy
    • Chlamydia infection in pregnancy
    • Candidiasis in pregnancy and newborn
    • Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy

Influenza A (H1N1) in pregnancy

• Australia
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Quantifying the risk of pandemic influenza in pregnancy and Indigenous people in Australia in 2009 [2009]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • H1N1 and influenza viruses. Why pregnant women might be hesitant to be vaccinated [2011]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • H1N1 Management Guideline for Pregnant Women & Neonates [2011]
• India
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Influenza and Pregnancy: A Review of the Literature from India [2015]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Ethical Issues in Pandemic Influenza Planning Concerning Pregnant Women [2013]
  • American Journal of Infection Control
    • General influenza infection control policies and practices during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic: A survey of women’s health, obstetric, and neonatal nurses [2014]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Maternal and Infant Outcomes Among Severely Ill Pregnant and Postpartum Women with 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) --- United States, April 2009--August 2010 [2011]
  • JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association
    • Pandemic 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Virus Illness Among Pregnant Women in the United States [2010]
  • Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing
    • Influenza Infection Control Practices in Labor and Delivery Units During the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic [2013]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Pregnancy and pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009: information for programme managers and clinicians [2010]
    • Pandemic influenza in pregnant women [2009]
    • Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Infections in pregnancy

Malaria in pregnancy

• 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]
  • 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]
  • World Health Organization
    • Protecting all pregnant women and children under five years living in malaria endemic areas in Africa with insecticide treated mosquito nets [2006]
• 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]
• 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
  • 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]
  • FANTA (Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project)
    • The Impact of Antenatal Azithromycin and Monthly Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine on Child Mortality, Morbidity, and Growth [2016]
  • 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]
• Mozambique
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy in central Mozambique [2007]
• 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]
  • 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, 2016 [2019]
    • 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
    • Implementing malaria in pregnancy programs in the context of World Health Organization recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience [2018]
    • WHO recommendation on intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy [2016]
    • Malaria position paper [2016]
    • Guidelines for the treatment of malaria. Third edition [2015]
    • WHO policy brief for the implementation of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) [2014]
    • WHO Evidence Review Group: intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) [2012]
    • Updated WHO policy recommendation: intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) [2012]
    • Assessment of the safety of artemisinin compounds in pregnancy [2007]
    • Malaria in pregnant women
    • Lives at risk: malaria in pregnancy
    • 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
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Neonatal infections

• Africa, Asia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Treatment of neonatal infections: a multi-country analysis of health system bottlenecks and potential solutions [2015]
• Australia
  • Clinical Excellence Commission
    • Newborn Antibiotic Guideline for early and late onset sepsis during birth episode of care [2018]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Newborn Eye Prophylaxis: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2016]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Preventing ophthalmia neonatorum [2018]
    • Management of term infants at increased risk for early onset bacterial sepsis [2017]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Prevention and Management of Ophthalmia Neonatorum Caused by Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae [2018]
  • Public Health Ontario
    • Best Practices for Infection Prevention and Control in Perinatology [2015]
• China
  • Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
    • Outbreak of plasmid-mediated NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST105 among neonatal patients in Yunnan, China [2016]
• Croatia
  • Medicinski Glasnik
    • Differences in newborn umbilical cord care [2015]
• Cuba
  • MEDICC Review
    • Implementing ACCM Critical Care Guidelines for Septic Shock Management in a Cuban Pediatric Intensive Care Unit [2014]
• Developing countries
  • BMC Public Health
    • The effect of umbilical cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on omphalitis and neonatal mortality in community settings in developing countries: a meta-analysis [2013]
  • Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
    • Rational development of guidelines for management of neonatal sepsis in developing countries [2015]
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
    • Empiric Treatment of Neonatal Sepsis in Developing Countries [2015]
• Europe
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • High variability in the dosing of commonly used antibiotics revealed by a Europe-wide point prevalence study: implications for research and dissemination [2015]
  • European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
    • Patient screening for resistant bacteria [2018]
    • Management of suspected early-onset neonatal sepsis (EONS) [2018]
    • Central venous catheter infection prevention [2018]
• France
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood
    • Therapeutic guidelines for prescribing antibiotics in neonates should be evidence-based: a French national survey [2015]
• India
  • Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
    • Antibiotic Prescribing Pattern in a Tertiary Level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [2015]
• International
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • Estimates of possible severe bacterial infection in neonates in sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America for 2012: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]
  • Paediatrics and International Child Health
    • Reviewing the WHO guidelines for antibiotic use for sepsis in neonates and children [2018]
  • Pediatric Research
    • Neonatal severe bacterial infection impairment estimates in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America for 2010 [2013]
  • Vaccine
    • Neonatal infections: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunisation safety data [2016]
• Italy
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • The use of ciprofloxacin and fluconazole in Italian neonatal intensive care units: a nationwide survey [2013]
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Secondary prevention of early-onset sepsis: a less invasive Italian approach for managing neonates at risk [2018]
    • Revised recommendations concerning palivizumab prophylaxis for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) [2015]
    • Inter-society consensus document on treatment and prevention of bronchiolitis in newborns and infants [2014]
• Kuwait
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Microbiological contamination of mobile phones of clinicians in intensive care units and neonatal care units in public hospitals in Kuwait [2015]
• Latvia
  • Medicina
    • Antimicrobial usage among hospitalized children in Latvia: A neonatal and pediatric antimicrobial point prevalence survey [2014]
• Low-income countries
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Burden of bacterial resistance among neonatal infections in low income countries: how convincing is the epidemiological evidence? [2015]
• Low-resource settings
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
    • An Innovative Multipartner Research Program to Address Detection, Assessment and Treatment of Neonatal Infections in Low-resource Settings [2013]
• Nicaragua
  • International Journal for Quality in Health Care
    • Quality in practice: preventing and managing neonatal sepsis in Nicaragua [2013]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Blood Culture Proven Early Onset Sepsis and Late Onset Sepsis in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants in Korea [2015]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Lancet Infectious Diseases
    • Maternal and early onset neonatal bacterial sepsis: burden and strategies for prevention in sub-Saharan Africa [2009]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Society of Neonatology
    • Recommendations for term and late preterm infants at risk for perinatal bacterial infection [2013]
• United Kingdom
  • GG&C Paediatric Guidelines
    • Immunisation guideline for neonates [2018]
    • Early onset sepsis in the neonate: prevention and treatment [2018]
    • Antibiotic guidelines for the neonatal unit [2018]
  • Health Protection Scotland
    • Guidance for neonatal units (NNUs) (levels 1, 2 & 3), adult and paediatric intensive care units (ICUs) in Scotland to minimise the risk of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection from water [2018]
  • Infant
    • Neonatal early onset sepsis: a reflection on the NICE guidance [2016]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Neonatal infection [2014]
    • Neonatal infection (early onset): antibiotics for prevention and treatment [2012]
  • Wales Neonatal Network
    • Congenital infection: Diagnosis and management [2017]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Management of Neonates Born at =35 0/7 Weeks’ Gestation With Suspected or Proven Early-Onset Bacterial Sepsis [2018]
    • Management of Neonates Born at =34 6/7 Weeks’ Gestation With Suspected or Proven Early-Onset Bacterial Sepsis [2018]
    • Umbilical Cord Care in the Newborn Infant [2016]
    • Strategies for Prevention of Health Care–Associated Infections in the NICU [2016]
    • Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Health Care–Associated Infections in the NICU [2016]
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Association between Vancomycin Trough Concentration and Area under the Concentration-Time Curve in Neonates [2014]
  • Clinics in Perinatology
    • New Antibiotic Dosing [2014]
  • Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
    • The Association of State Legal Mandates for Data Submission of Central Line-associated Blood Stream Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Units with Process and Outcome Measures [2014]
  • Journal of Pediatrics
    • Reappraisal of Guidelines for Management of Neonates with Suspected Early-Onset Sepsis [2015]
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Neonatal Sepsis
  • National Perinatal Association
    • National Perinatal Association 2018 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Prevention Clinical Practice Guideline: An Evidence-Based Interdisciplinary Collaboration [2017]
  • Pediatrics
    • Role of Guidelines on Length of Therapy in Chorioamnionitis and Neonatal Sepsis [2014]
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine
    • American College of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Parameters for Hemodynamic Support of Pediatric and Neonatal Septic Shock [2017]
• Vietnam
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Reducing neonatal infections in south and south central Vietnam: the views of healthcare providers [2013]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Managing possible serious bacterial infection in young infants when referral is not feasible [2017]
    • Antibiotic Use for Sepsis in Neonates and Children: 2016 Evidence Update [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Zika virus infection in pregnancy and newborn
    • Tuberculosis in pregnancy
    • Trichomoniasis in pregnancy
    • Toxoplasmosis
    • Tetanus in pregnancy and newborn
    • Sexually transmitted infections in pregnancy
    • Rubella
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Neonatology
    • Malaria in pregnancy
    • Infections in pregnancy
    • Herpes infections in pregnancy and newborn
    • Hepatitis in pregnancy and newborn
    • Hepatitis
    • HIV/AIDS in pregnancy and newborn
    • HIV/AIDS
    • Group B streptococcal infections
    • Gonorrhea in pregnancy and newborn
    • Genital infections, sexually transmitted diseases
    • Cytomegalovirus
    • Congenital syphilis, syphilis in pregnancy
    • Chlamydia infection in pregnancy
    • Candidiasis in pregnancy and newborn
    • Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy

Postpartum infections

• Denmark
  • BMJ Open
    • Postpartum urinary tract infection by mode of delivery: a Danish nationwide cohort study [2018]
• International
  • Vaccine
    • Postpartum endometritis and infection following incomplete or complete abortion: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunization safety data [2019]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Effect of Puerperal Infections on Early Neonatal Mortality: A Secondary Analysis of Six Demographic and Health Surveys [2017]
• Suriname
  • PLoS ONE
    • The golden hour of sepsis: An in-depth analysis of sepsis-related maternal mortality in middle-income country Suriname [2018]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Sepsis following Pregnancy, Bacterial [2012]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO recommendation on a combination of clindamycin and gentamicin for the treatment of postpartum endometritis [2015]
    • Managing puerperal sepsis [2006]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Postpartum (puerperium)
    • Infections in pregnancy

Rubella

• Africa
  • BMC Research Notes
    • Serological makers of rubella infection in Africa in the pre vaccination era: a systematic review [2015]
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Rubella Epidemiology in Africa in the Prevaccine Era, 2002–2009 [2011]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Rubella | The Australian Immunisation Handbook [2018]
    • Rubella [2018]
    • Australian vaccine preventable disease epidemiological review series: rubella 2008–2012 [2015]
  • NSW Ministry of Health
    • Rubella
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • Using the two-source capture–recapture method to estimate the incidence and case ascertainment of congenital rubella syndrome in Australia, 1993–2013 [2016]
• Cameroon
  • International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
    • Identification of Ocular and Auditory Manifestations of Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Mbingo [2014]
• Canada
  • Government of Alberta
    • Public health disease management guidelines : rubella [2018]
    • Public health disease management guidelines : congenital rubella infection/syndrome [2018]
  • Government of Canada
    • Rubella Vaccine
    • Rubella
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Rubella in Pregnancy [2018]
• Chile
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Rubella Outbreaks Following Virus Importations: The Experience of Chile [2011]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Rubella
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Epidemiology of rubella virus cases in the pre-vaccination era of Ethiopia, 2009–2015 [2016]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Retrospective surveillance and enhanced case-finding of congenital rubella syndrome cases [2018]
    • Measles and rubella surveillance - 2017 [2018]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • 7th meeting of the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC). Report (2018) [2018]
    • 13th meeting of the European Measles and Rubella Regional Reference Laboratories. Report (2018) [2018]
    • Measles and rubella elimination 2015. Package for accelerated action: 2013-2015 [2013]
    • Guidelines for measles and rubella outbreak investigation and response in the WHO European Region [2013]
    • Guidance on conducting serosurveys in support of measles and rubella elimination in the WHO European Region (2013) [2013]
    • Surveillance guidelines for measles, rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the WHO European Region [2012]
    • Eliminating measles and rubella: framework for the verification process in the WHO European Region [2012]
    • Measles and rubella
• Fiji
  • Journal of Tropical Medicine
    • Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Fiji, 1995–2010 [2013]
• France
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Resurgence risk for measles, mumps and rubella in France in 2018 and 2020 [2018]
• India
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Sentinel Surveillance for Congenital Rubella Syndrome — India, 2016–2017 [2018]
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • IAP perspectives on measles and rubella elimination strategies [2014]
  • Indian Journal of Public Health
    • Congenital rubella syndrome: A brief review of public health perspectives [2018]
    • Targeting rubella for elimination [2012]
  • Indian Pediatrics
    • Burden of Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in India: A Systematic Review [2012]
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Assessment of readiness for measles–rubella supplementary immunization activity, India, 2018 [2018]
• International
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Progress Toward Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2018 [2019]
    • Progress in Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2016 [2017]
    • Global Progress Toward Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination — 2000–2014 [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Using Seroprevalence and Immunisation Coverage Data to Estimate the Global Burden of Congenital Rubella Syndrome, 1996-2010: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Genetic characterization of measles and rubella viruses detected through surveillance for global measles and rubella elimination, 2016–2018 [2019]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Rubella
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Rubella [2016]
• Italy
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Congenital rubella still a public health problem in Italy: analysis of national surveillance data from 2005 to 2013 [2015]
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Surveillance and vaccination coverage of measles and rubella in Northern Italy [2014]
    • Progress in the elimination of measles and congenital rubella in Central Italy [2013]
• Japan
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Investigating the immunizing effect of the rubella epidemic in Japan, 2012-14 [2015]
• Namibia
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Rubella immunity among pregnant women aged 15–44 years, Namibia, 2010 [2016]
• Nepal
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • Confronting Rubella: the story of how Nepal protected its people from rubella and congenital rubella syndrome [2018]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Rubella: congenital [2012]
• Philippines
  • International Journal of Pediatrics
    • Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the Philippines: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • The burden of congenital rubella syndrome in the Philippines: results from a retrospective assessment [2017]
• Solomon Islands
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • An outbreak investigation of congenital rubella syndrome in Solomon Islands, 2013 [2016]
• South-East Asia
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Progress towards control of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome – South-East Asia Region, 2000–2016 [2018]
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • Strategic plan for measles elimination and rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control in the South-East Asia Region, 2014-2020 [2015]
    • Measles elimination and rubella/congenital rubella syndrome control: Report of a regional consultation, Kathmandu, Nepal, 19-22 February 2013 [2013]
    • Rubella
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Is birth cohort 1985/9–1990/8 a susceptibility window for congenital rubella syndrome in Taiwan? [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Rubella infection in pregnancy and congenital rubella in United Kingdom, 2003 to 2016 [2018]
  • Public Health England
    • Rubella (German measles): guidance, data and analysis
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Prevention of Measles, Rubella, Congenital Rubella Syndrome, and Mumps, 2013: Summary Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) [2013]
    • Use of combination measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) [2010]
    • Surveillance Manual | Congenital Rubella Syndrome
    • Rubella | German Measles
    • Rubella (German Measles) Vaccination
    • Rubella
    • Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine Safety
  • Minnesota Department of Health
    • Rubella (German Measles)
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Consultation on Regional Measles and Rubella Elimination in the Western Pacific Inherent Physical Requirements of the Position, Manila, Philippines, 19-21 April 2017 : meeting report [2017]
    • Sixth Hands-on Training on Molecular Laboratory Diagnosis of Measles and Rubella, Hong Kong SAR (China), 29 February to 4 March 2016 : report [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Guidance for evaluating progress towards elimination of measles and rubella [2018]
    • Roadmap to elimination standard measles and rubella surveillance [2017]
    • Introducing Rubella Vaccine into National Immunization Programmes. A step by step guide [2015]
    • Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control and elimination – global progress, 2012 [2013]
    • Global measles and rubella strategic plan: 2012-2020 [2012]
    • The immunological basis for immunization series: module 11: rubella [2008]
    • Rubella: Fact sheet
    • Rubella - Reported cases by country
    • Rubella
    • Congenital Rubella Syndrome - Reported cases by country
• Zimbabwe
  • BMC Public Health
    • Trends of rubella incidence during a 5-year period of case based surveillance in Zimbabwe [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Sexually transmitted infections in pregnancy

• America
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in the Americas. Update 2016 [2017]
    • Field Guide for Implementation of the Strategy and Plan of Action for Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis in the Americas [2014]
    • 2012 Progress Report: Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis in the Americas [2013]
• Asia, Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Regional framework for the triple elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis in Asia and the Pacific, 2018-2030 [2018]
• Australia
  • Australasian Sexual Health Alliance
    • Pregnant women
  • Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
    • Antenatal Testing and Blood-Borne Viruses (BBVs) 2015 [2015]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Human papilloma virus [2018]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae During Pregnancy: A Health Technology Assessment [2018]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Prenatal Invasive Procedures in Women With Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and/or Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections [2014]
• China
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Integrated prevention of mother-to-child transmission for human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis and hepatitis B virus in China [2015]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Preventing Perinatal Transmission [2015]
• Japan
  • Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Current Status of Condylomata Acuminata in Pregnant Japanese Women [2016]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Strategy and Plan of Action for Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean: Regional Monitoring Strategy. 3. ed. [2013]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    • Prevalence of Curable Sexually Transmitted Infections in Pregnant Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries From 2010 to 2015 [2016]
• Philippines
  • Department of Health Philippines
    • Guidelines on the Management of Sexually-Transmitted Infections (STI) in Pregnancy [2010]
• United Kingdom
  • Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
    • The management of sexually transmitted infections in pregnancy [2012]
  • Women's Health
    • Managing Sexually Transmitted Infections in Pregnant Women [2012]
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • STDs & Pregnancy
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Triple elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis [2017]
    • Expert Consultation on Triple Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B and Syphilis in the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines, 20-21 February 2017 : meeting report [2017]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Standard protocol to assess prevalence of gonorrhoea and chlamydia among pregnant women in antenatal care clinics [2018]
    • WHO recommendation on human deficiency virus and syphilis testing in pregnancy [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Sexually transmitted infections
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Tetanus in pregnancy and newborn

• Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus
• Cameroon
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in Cameroon, 2012 [2013]
• Chad
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus in Chad [2019]
• Comoros
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of neonatal tetanus elimination in Burundi and the Comoros by a lot quality assurance cluster sampling survey, 1 October 2008– 30 September 2009 [2011]
• Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [2019]
• Equatorial Guinea
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in Equatorial Guinea, 2016 [2017]
• India
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination: validation survey in 4 States and 2 union territories in India, May 2015 [2015]
• Indonesia
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Maternal and neonatal tetanus validation assessment in Region 4, Indonesia [2016]
• International
  • Lancet
    • Maternal and neonatal tetanus [2015]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Eliminating Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus [2004]
• Laos
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination: validation surveys in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, December 2013 [2015]
• Liberia
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in Liberia, 2011 [2012]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • BMC Public Health
    • Interventions to reduce neonatal mortality from neonatal tetanus in low and middle income countries - a systematic review [2013]
• Mozambique
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of elimination: maternal and neonatal tetanus in Mozambique, 2010 [2011]
• Pakistan
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Neonatal tetanus elimination in Pakistan: progress and challenges [2012]
  • World Health Organization
    • Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination: validation in Punjab Province, Pakistan, November 2016 [2017]
• Tanzania
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in United Republic of Tanzania, 2012 [2013]
• Timor-Leste
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Validation of maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in Timor-Leste, 2012 [2012]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Tetanus vaccines: WHO position paper – February 2017 [2017]
    • WHO recommendation on tetanus toxoid vaccination for pregnant women [2016]
    • Neonatal tetanus - Reported cases by country
    • Neonatal Tetanus
    • Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination (MNTE)
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Toxoplasmosis

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Toxoplasmosis [2018]
• Austria
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Prevalence and incidence of toxoplasmosis: a retrospective analysis of mother-child examinations, Styria, Austria, 1995 to 2012 [2016]
• Brazil
  • Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
    • Programs for control of congenital toxoplasmosis [2011]
• Canada
  • Government of Alberta
    • Public health notifiable disease management guidelines: Congenital Toxoplasmosis [2018]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Toxoplasmosis in Pregnancy: Prevention, Screening, and Treatment [2018]
• China
  • Parasites and Vectors
    • Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans in China [2011]
• Colombia
  • Infectio
    • Clinical practice guideline. Integral Care Guidelines for the prevention, early detection and treatment of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium complications: Section on toxoplasmosis in pregnancy [2017]
  • Parasites and Vectors
    • An overview of seventy years of research (1944-2014) on toxoplasmosis in Colombia, South America [2014]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Congenital toxoplasmosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017 [2019]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Survey of European programmes for the epidemiological surveillance of congenital toxoplasmosis [2008]
• France
  • Pathogens
    • Maternal and Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Diagnosis and Treatment Recommendations of a French Multidisciplinary Working Group [2019]
    • Congenital Toxoplasmosis: A Plea for a Neglected Disease [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The cost-effectiveness of neonatal versus prenatal screening for congenital toxoplasmosis [2019]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The global burden of congenital toxoplasmosis: a systematic review [2013]
  • Emerging Microbes & Infections
    • Global initiative for congenital toxoplasmosis: an observational and international comparative clinical analysis [2018]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Acute Toxoplasma infection in pregnant women worldwide: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Iran
  • Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine
    • Toxoplasmosis in Iran: A guide for general physicians working in the Iranian health network setting: A systematic review [2016]
  • Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
    • Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection among Iranian pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
  • Iranian Journal of Reproductive Medicine
    • Prevalence of immunity to toxoplasmosis among Iranian childbearing age women: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Toxoplasmosis
• Italy
  • New Microbiologica
    • Multidisciplinary approach to congenital Toxoplasma infection: an Italian nationwide survey [2014]
• Kyrgyzstan
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Kyrgyzstan: Seroprevalence, Risk Factor Analysis, and Estimate of Congenital and AIDS-Related Toxoplasmosis [2013]
• Mexico
  • Parasites and Vectors
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of Toxoplasma gondii infection among the Mexican population [2012]
  • Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
    • Toxoplasmosis in Mexico: epidemiological situation in humans and animals [2015]
• Morocco
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Review of toxoplasmosis in Morocco: seroprevalence and risk factors for toxoplasma infection among pregnant women and HIV- infected patients [2017]
• Netherlands
  • PLoS ONE
    • A social cost-benefit analysis of two One Health interventions to prevent toxoplasmosis [2019]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Preventing congenital toxoplasmosis — implementation of clinical practice guidelines [2018]
• Portugal
  • BMJ Open
    • Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in the Portuguese population: comparison of three cross-sectional studies spanning three decades [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Public Health England
    • Toxoplasmosis: diagnosis, epidemiology and prevention
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Congenital Toxoplasmosis in the United States [2017]
  • Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Survey of obstetrician-gynecologists in the United States about toxoplasmosis: 2012 Update [2014]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Toxoplasmosis - Travelers' Health
    • Toxoplasmosis
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Trichomoniasis in pregnancy

• Argentina
  • Korean Journal of Parasitology
    • Optimization of Trichomonas vaginalis Diagnosis during Pregnancy at a University Hospital, Argentina [2016]
    • Prevalence and Comparison of Diagnostic Methods for Trichomonas vaginalis Infection in Pregnant Women in Argentina [2010]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Trichomoniasis [2018]
• Brazil
  • Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Trichomonas vaginalis infection among young pregnant women in Brazil [2014]
• Kenya
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections
    • Male partner circumcision associated with lower Trichomonas vaginalis incidence among pregnant and postpartum Kenyan women: a prospective cohort study [2017]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South African Medical Journal
    • Treatment of trichomoniasis in pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa does not appear to be associated with low birth weight or preterm birth [2010]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Trichomoniasis
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Tuberculosis in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Treatment of tuberculosis in pregnant women and newborn infants
• Europe, United States of America
  • TBNET
    • Pregnancy in patients with tuberculosis: a TBNET cross-sectional survey [2016]
• India
  • International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Need for increased clinical awareness of tuberculosis during pregnancy and puerperium in India [2016]
• International
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Tuberculosis in Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Epidemiology, Management, and Research Gaps [2012]
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Perspectives on tuberculosis in pregnancy [2015]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Tuberculosis in pregnancy: an estimate of the global burden of disease [2014]
• Israel
  • Israel Medical Association Journal
    • Tuberculosis during Pregnancy in Northern Israel, 2002-2012: Epidemiology and Clinical Practices [2015]
• Low-income countries
  • Journal of Pregnancy
    • A Model of Tuberculosis Screening for Pregnant Women in Resource-Limited Settings Using Xpert MTB/RIF [2012]
• United Kingdom
  • Public Health England
    • Tuberculosis and pregnant women
• United States of America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • TB Treatment & Pregnancy
  • PLoS ONE
    • Tuberculosis during pregnancy in the United States: Racial/ethnic disparities in pregnancy complications and in-hospital death [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO recommendation on tuberculosis testing in pregnancy [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Tuberculosis
    • Neonatal infections
    • Infections in pregnancy

Urinary tract infections in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Asymptomatic bacteriuria [2018]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Routine Urinalysis for Low-Risk Pregnancies: Clinical Utility and Guidelines [2017]
  • Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
    • Recommendations on screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy [2018]
• Germany
  • Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
    • Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Within the Framework of the German Maternity Guidelines, Under Special Consideration of Test Methods [2015]
• Iran
  • BMC Urology
    • The etiology and prevalence of urinary tract infection and asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women in Iran: a systematic review and Meta-analysis [2019]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Pregnancy [2015]
• United States of America
  • Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology
    • Association between Antibiotic Use among Pregnant Women with Urinary Tract Infections in the First Trimester and Birth Defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study 1997 to 2011 [2016]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Antibiotics Dispensed to Privately Insured Pregnant Women with Urinary Tract Infections — United States, 2014 [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO recommendation on the method for diagnosing asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy [2016]
    • WHO recommendation on antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria [2016]
    • WHO recommendation on antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Urinary tract infections in women
    • Infections in pregnancy

Vaccines in pregnancy

• Argentina
  • Vaccine
    • Maternal immunization in Argentina: A storyline from the prospective of a middle income country [2015]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Pertussis immunisation in pregnancy: a summary of funded Australian state and territory programs [2015]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Influenza vaccination during pregnancy (and in women planning pregnancy) [2017]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • The benefits of influenza vaccine in pregnancy for the fetus and the infant younger than six months [2018]
  • Government of Alberta
    • Pertussis immunization program for pregnant women [2018]
  • Government of Canada
    • Update on immunization in pregnancy with Tdap vaccine [2018]
    • Immunization in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Immunization in Pregnancy [2018]
• Europe
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Tailoring immunization programmes for seasonal influenza (TIP FLU) - A guide for increasing pregnant women’s uptake of seasonal influenza vaccination (2017) [2017]
• India
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Vaccination during pregnancy: Today's need in India [2015]
• International
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Maternal pertussis immunisation: clinical gains and epidemiological legacy [2017]
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • A global survey of adverse event following immunization surveillance systems for pregnant women and their infants [2016]
  • Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
    • The Global Influenza Initiative recommendations for the vaccination of pregnant women against seasonal influenza [2015]
  • Vaccine
    • Influenza epidemiology and immunization during pregnancy: Final report of a World Health Organization working group [2017]
    • Review of prescribing information for influenza vaccines for pregnant and lactating women [2016]
    • Guideline for collection, analysis and presentation of safety data in clinical trials of vaccines in pregnant women [2016]
    • Guidance for the collection of case report form variables to assess safety in clinical trials of vaccines in pregnancy [2016]
    • Global alignment of immunization safety assessment in pregnancy – The GAIA project [2016]
    • Understanding factors influencing vaccination acceptance during pregnancy globally: A literature review [2015]
    • Key terms for the assessment of the safety of vaccines in pregnancy: Results of a global consultative process to initiate harmonization of adverse event definitions [2015]
    • Does influenza vaccination improve pregnancy outcome? Methodological issues and research needs [2015]
    • A systematic review of adverse events following immunization during pregnancy and the newborn period [2015]
    • A global perspective of maternal influenza immunization [2015]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Maternal and Neonatal Immunization Field Guide for Latin America and the Caribbean [2017]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Vaccine
    • Path to impact: A report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation convening on maternal immunization in resource-limited settings; Berlin – January 29–30, 2015 [2015]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Immunisation for Pregnant Women: Audience research with pregnant women [2015]
• Spain
  • PLoS ONE
    • Exploring the risk of severe outcomes and the role of seasonal influenza vaccination in pregnant women hospitalized with confirmed influenza, Spain, 2010/11-2015/16 [2018]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ
    • Safety of pertussis vaccination in pregnant women in UK: observational study [2014]
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • Lessons learnt from the implementation of maternal immunization programs in England [2016]
    • Approaches to the vaccination of pregnant women: experience from Stockport, UK, with prenatal influenza [2013]
  • Public Health England
    • Vaccine in pregnancy: advice for pregnant women
    • Vaccination in pregnancy (VIP)
    • Vaccination against pertussis (whooping cough) for pregnant women
    • Influenza vaccination in pregnancy: advice for healthcare professionals
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Immunization Implementation Strategies for Obstetrician–Gynecologists [2019]
    • Maternal Immunization [2018]
    • Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy [2018]
    • Update on Immunization and Pregnancy Tetanus Diphtheria and Pertussis Vaccination [2017]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2019–20 Influenza Season [2019]
    • Influenza and Tdap Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women — United States, April 2018 [2018]
    • Tdap Vaccination Coverage During Pregnancy — Selected Sites, United States, 2006–2015 [2017]
    • Influenza Vaccination Coverage During Pregnancy — Selected Sites, United States, 2005–06 Through 2013–14 Influenza Vaccine Seasons [2016]
    • Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis Vaccination Coverage Before, During, and After Pregnancy — 16 States and New York City, 2011 [2015]
    • Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women — United States, 2014–15 Influenza Season [2015]
    • Vaccination with Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine of Pregnant Women Enrolled in Medicaid — Michigan, 2011–2013 [2014]
    • Updated Recommendations for Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid, and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine (Tdap) in Pregnant Women — Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2012 [2013]
    • Updated Recommendations for Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine (Tdap) in Pregnant Women and Persons Who Have or Anticipate Having Close Contact with an Infant Aged <12 Months [2011]
    • Pregnancy and Vaccination
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
    • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's public health response to monitoring Tdap safety in pregnant women in the United States [2015]
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    • Assessment of Safety in Newborns of Mothers Participating in Clinical Trials of Vaccines Administered During Pregnancy [2014]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Vaccinations for Pregnant Women [2015]
  • Vaccine
    • The US FDA pregnancy lactation and labeling rule – Implications for maternal immunization [2015]
    • Maternal immunization efforts of the National Institutes of Health [2015]
    • Maternal benefits of immunization during pregnancy [2015]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Stakeholders meeting on maternal interventions vigilance: safety monitoring and surveillance in vaccine and other research settings: Domaine de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland, 20-21 November 2017 [2018]
    • Dengue vaccine: WHO position paper – September 2018 [2018]
    • How to implement influenza vaccination of pregnant women: An introduction manual for national immunization programme managers and policy makers [2016]
    • Safety of Immunization during Pregnancy – A review of the evidence [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Infections in pregnancy

Zika virus infection in pregnancy and newborn

• Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Zika Virus risk assessment in the WHO African Region: a technical report [2016]
    • Zika Virus
• America
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Zika Virus Transmission — Region of the Americas, May 15, 2015–December 15, 2016 [2017]
    • Zika Virus Spreads to New Areas — Region of the Americas, May 2015–January 2016 [2016]
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
    • Microcephaly Prevalence in Infants Born to Zika Virus-Infected Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2017]
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Strategy for Enhancing National Capacity to Respond to Zika virus Epidemic in the Americas, 3 February 2016 [2016]
    • Provisional remarks on Zika virus infection in pregnant women: Document for health care professionals (January 25, 2016) [2016]
    • Preliminary guidelines for the surveillance of microcephaly in newborns in settings with risk of Zika virus circulation [2016]
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    • Spread of Zika virus in the Americas [2017]
  • Science
    • Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings [2016]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Zika virus infection - CDNA National Guidelines for Public Health Units [2017]
    • Revised surveillance case definitions: brucellosis and Flavivirus infection (unspecified) including Zika virus [2016]
    • Zika virus – information for clinicians and public health practitioners
  • WA Health, Government of Western Australia
    • Zika virus infection
• Brazil
  • Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
    • Management of infection by the Zika virus [2016]
  • Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Zika virus infection during pregnancy and microcephaly occurrence: a review of literature and Brazilian data [2016]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Risk of microcephaly after Zika virus infection in Brazil, 2015 to 2016 [2017]
    • Microcephaly in north-east Brazil: a retrospective study on neonates born between 2012 and 2015 [2016]
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • The microcephaly epidemic and Zika virus: building knowledge in epidemiology [2018]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Health and Development at Age 19–24 Months of 19 Children Who Were Born with Microcephaly and Laboratory Evidence of Congenital Zika Virus Infection During the 2015 Zika Virus Outbreak — Brazil, 2017 [2017]
    • Possible Association Between Zika Virus Infection and Microcephaly — Brazil, 2015 [2016]
    • Notes from the Field: Evidence of Zika Virus Infection in Brain and Placental Tissues from Two Congenitally Infected Newborns and Two Fetal Losses — Brazil, 2015 [2016]
    • Increase in Reported Prevalence of Microcephaly in Infants Born to Women Living in Areas with Confirmed Zika Virus Transmission During the First Trimester of Pregnancy — Brazil, 2015 [2016]
    • Hearing Loss in Infants with Microcephaly and Evidence of Congenital Zika Virus Infection — Brazil, November 2015–May 2016 [2016]
  • Epidemiology and Health
    • Zika: what we do and do not know based on the experiences of Brazil [2016]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Detection of Zika virus in Brazilian patients during the first five days of infection – urine versus plasma [2016]
  • Human Reproduction
    • Contraceptive sales in the setting of the Zika virus epidemic [2016]
  • JBRA Assisted Reproduction
    • Reproductive planning in times of Zika: getting pregnant or delaying plans? The opinion of the Brazilian Society of Assisted Reproduction Committee - a basis for a bioethical discussion [2016]
  • Jornal de Pediatria
    • Microcephaly and Zika virus: a clinical and epidemiological analysis of the current outbreak in Brazil [2016]
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Zika virus outbreak in Brazil [2016]
  • Lancet
    • Congenital Zika virus syndrome in Brazil: a case series of the first 1501 livebirths with complete investigation [2016]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Women in Rio de Janeiro — Preliminary Report [2016]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • The association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil 2015–2017: An observational analysis of over 4 million births [2019]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Zika virus infection and microcephaly: Evidence regarding geospatial associations [2018]
  • Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
    • Zika virus: challenges of public health in Brazil [2016]
  • Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
    • Zika virus infection and pregnancy [2016]
  • Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
    • The role of Brazilian National Health Information Systems in assessing the impact of Zika virus outbreak [2017]
• Brazil, Colombia
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Potential inconsistencies in Zika surveillance data and our understanding of risk during pregnancy [2018]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Zika virus: What does a physician caring for children in Canada need to know? [2017]
  • Government of Alberta
    • Public health disease management guidelines : Zika virus [2018]
  • Government of Canada
    • Zika virus
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Travel-related Zika virus cases in Canada: October 2015–June 2017 [2018]
    • Canadian recommendations on the prevention and treatment of Zika virus: update [2016]
• China
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Zika Virus May Affect the Universal Two-Child Policy: A New Challenge for China [2016]
• Colombia
  • EuroSurveillance
    • The epidemiology and transmissibility of Zika virus in Girardot and San Andres island, Colombia, September 2015 to January 2016 [2016]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Zika Virus Disease in Colombia — Preliminary Report [2016]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
    • Enhancing surveillance for early detection of Zika virus infection: strategies for the countries of Eastern Mediterranean Region [2019]
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Summary report on the regional meeting to enhance preparedness and response capacities to Zika virus infection [2016]
• Europe
  • BMJ
    • Prevalence of microcephaly in Europe: population based study [2016]
    • Ethnicity should play no role in the definition of microcephaly [2016]
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Zika virus disease - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017 [2019]
    • Zika virus and safety of substances of human origin: a guide for preparedness activities in Europe – first update [2017]
    • Rapid risk assessment: Zika virus disease epidemic. Tenth update, 4 April 2017 [2017]
    • Zika virus disease epidemic: Preparedness planning guide for diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus [2016]
    • Zika virus and safety of substances of human origin – A guide for preparedness activities in Europe [2016]
    • Interim guidance for healthcare providers and Zika virus laboratory diagnosis [2016]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Surveillance of Zika virus infection in the EU/EEA, June 2015 to January 2017 [2017]
    • Status, quality and specific needs of Zika virus (ZIKV) diagnostic capacity and capability in National Reference Laboratories for arboviruses in 30 EU/EEA countries [2017]
    • Zika virus, the new kid on the block [2016]
    • Zika virus and congenital malformations in perspective [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Zika virus and emerging mosquito - borne diseases: The European emergency risk communication challenge. A response guide (2017) [2017]
• France
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Zika emergence in the French Territories of America and description of first confirmed cases of Zika virus infection on Martinique, November 2015 to February 2016 [2016]
    • Travel-associated and autochthonous Zika virus infection in mainland France, 1 January to 15 July 2016 [2016]
    • Réunion Island prepared for possible Zika virus emergence, 2016 [2016]
    • Congenital cerebral malformations and dysfunction in fetuses and newborns following the 2013 to 2014 Zika virus epidemic in French Polynesia [2016]
• Germany
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Sexual transmission of Zika virus in Germany, April 2016 [2016]
• Haiti
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Transmission of Zika Virus — Haiti, October 12, 2015–September 10, 2016 [2017]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Zika Virus Outbreak in Haiti in 2014: Molecular and Clinical Data [2016]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Interim guidelines on the management of a pregnant woman with possible Zika virus exposure [2017]
    • Zika virus: general information and advice- for obstetrical healthcare providers [2016]
    • Interim guidelines on Zika Virus infection during pregnancy [2016]
• India
  • Infectious Diseases of Poverty
    • Zika: How safe is India? [2017]
• International
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • History, Epidemiology, and Clinical Manifestations of Zika: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • BMC Medicine
    • The global threat of Zika virus to pregnancy: epidemiology, clinical perspectives, mechanisms, and impact [2016]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Prevalence of asymptomatic Zika virus infection: a systematic review [2018]
    • Systematic analysis of protein identity between Zika virus and other arthropod-borne viruses [2017]
    • Zika: the origin and spread of a mosquito-borne virus [2016]
    • Times to key events in Zika virus infection and implications for blood donation: a systematic review [2016]
    • Defining the syndrome associated with congenital Zika virus infection [2016]
    • Background review for diagnostic test development for Zika virus infection [2016]
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Zika virus transmission worldwide [2019]
    • Current Zika virus transmission - List of countries: ECDC adaptation of WHO's Zika virus country classification scheme [2017]
    • Current Zika transmission worldwide [2017]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO Statement on the Zika virus [2016]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Zika virus exposure in pregnancy and its association with newborn visual anomalies and hearing loss [2018]
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation
    • IMAP Statement: on zika virus [2016]
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Interim Guidance on ultrasound for Zika virus infection in pregnancy: information for healthcare professionals [2016]
  • Journal of Global Infectious Diseases
    • The Emergence of Zika Virus as a Global Health Security Threat: A Review and a Consensus Statement of the INDUSEM Joint working Group (JWG) [2016]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Zika Virus as a Cause of Neurologic Disorders [2016]
  • North American Journal of Medical Sciences
    • Zika Virus: A Global Threat to Humanity: A Comprehensive Review and Current Developments [2016]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Sexual transmission of Zika virus and other flaviviruses: A living systematic review [2018]
    • Zika Virus Infection as a Cause of Congenital Brain Abnormalities and Guillain–Barré Syndrome: Systematic Review [2017]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • A Cost-Effectiveness Tool for Informing Policies on Zika Virus Control [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Zika virus infection in pregnancy: a systematic review of disease course and complications [2017]
• Ireland
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre
    • Zika
• Israel
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Detection of Zika virus RNA in whole blood of imported Zika virus disease cases up to 2 months after symptom onset, Israel, December 2015 to April 2016 [2016]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
    • Family planning and Zika virus: need for renewed and cohesive efforts to ensure availability of intrauterine contraception in Latin America and the Caribbean [2017]
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • After the epidemic: Zika virus projections for Latin America and the Caribbean [2017]
• Malaysia
  • Medical Journal of Malaysia
    • Zika virus and its potential re-emergence in Malaysia [2016]
• Mexico
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Zika virus infection estimates, Mexico [2018]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Zika virus
  • Public Health Surveillance
    • Zika Virus Infection Report
• Pacific Islands
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Acute flaccid paralysis incidence and Zika virus surveillance, Pacific Islands [2017]
• PAHO
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Guidelines for Surveillance of Zika Virus Disease and Its Complications. 2018 edition [2018]
    • Zika Virus Infection. Step-by-Step Guide to Risk Communication and Community Engagement [2017]
    • Zika virus infection: step by step guide on Risk Communications and Community Engagement [2016]
    • Zika Resources: For Health Authorities
• Paraguay
  • Weekly Epidemiological Record
    • Retrospective detection of Zika virus transmission in Paraguay – January to December 2016 [2019]
• Puerto Rico
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Measures Taken to Prevent Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy — Puerto Rico, 2016 [2017]
    • Update: Ongoing Zika Virus Transmission — Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015–July 7, 2016 [2016]
    • Local Transmission of Zika Virus — Puerto Rico, November 23, 2015–January 28, 2016 [2016]
    • Incidence of Zika Virus Disease by Age and Sex — Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015–October 20, 2016 [2016]
    • Estimating Contraceptive Needs and Increasing Access to Contraception in Response to the Zika Virus Disease Outbreak — Puerto Rico, 2016 [2016]
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Cost-effectiveness of Increasing Access to Contraception during the Zika Virus Outbreak, Puerto Rico, 2016 [2017]
• Singapore
  • BMC Medicine
    • The inevitable colonisation of Singapore by Zika virus [2016]
• South America
  • BMJ
    • Prevalence and clinical profile of microcephaly in South America pre-Zika, 2005-14: prevalence and case-control study [2017]
• South-East Asia
  • Epidemiology and Health
    • The current status of Zika virus in Southeast Asia [2016]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
    • Why Zika virus infection has become a public health concern? [2016]
• Thailand
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Detection of Zika Virus Infection in Thailand, 2012–2014 [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Public Health England
    • Zika virus: transmission
    • Zika virus: surveillance for congenital Zika syndrome
    • Zika virus: sexual transmission advice algorithm
    • Zika virus: preventing infection by sexual transmission
    • Zika virus: epidemiology and cases diagnosed in the UK
    • Zika virus: country specific risk
    • Zika virus: advice for women returning from areas with active Zika virus transmission
    • Zika virus risk: algorithm for assessing pregnant women
    • Zika virus congenital infection: algorithm and interim guidance
    • Zika virus (ZIKV): clinical and travel guidance
    • HAIRS risk assessment: Zika virus
  • Royal College of General Practitioners
    • Zika virus
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Zika Virus
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Management of Patients in the Context of Zika Virus [2019]
    • Counseling Patients With Zika Infection [2016]
    • Zika Virus
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Testing for Zika virus infection in pregnancy: key concepts to deal with an emerging epidemic [2017]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Dengue and Zika Virus Diagnostic Testing for Patients with a Clinically Compatible Illness and Risk for Infection with Both Viruses [2019]
    • Vital Signs: Zika-Associated Birth Defects and Neurodevelopmental Abnormalities Possibly Associated with Congenital Zika Virus Infection — U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States, 2018 [2018]
    • Update: Noncongenital Zika Virus Disease Cases — 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia, 2016 [2018]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Preconception Counseling and Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus for Men with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, August 2018 [2018]
    • Population-Based Surveillance of Birth Defects Potentially Related to Zika Virus Infection — 15 States and U.S. Territories, 2016 [2018]
    • Assessment of State, Local, and Territorial Zika Planning and Preparedness Activities — United States, June 2016–July 2017 [2018]
    • Zika Virus —10 Public Health Achievements in 2016 and Future Priorities [2017]
    • Vital Signs: Update on Zika Virus–Associated Birth Defects and Evaluation of All U.S. Infants with Congenital Zika Virus Exposure — U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry, 2016 [2017]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection — United States, October 2017 [2017]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States (Including U.S. Territories), July 2017 [2017]
    • Pregnancy Outcomes After Maternal Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy — U.S. Territories, January 1, 2016–April 25, 2017 [2017]
    • Meeting Summary: State and Local Implementation Strategies for Increasing Access to Contraception During Zika Preparedness and Response — United States, September 2016 [2017]
    • Evaluation of Placental and Fetal Tissue Specimens for Zika Virus Infection — 50 States and District of Columbia, January–December, 2016 [2017]
    • Zika Virus Infection Among U.S. Pregnant Travelers — August 2015–February 2016 [2016]
    • Zika Virus Disease Cases — 50 States and the District of Columbia, January 1–July 31, 2016 [2016]
    • Vital Signs: Preparing for Local Mosquito-Borne Transmission of Zika Virus — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidelines for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women and Women of Reproductive Age with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidelines for Health Care Providers Caring for Infants and Children with Possible Zika Virus Infection [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for the Evaluation and Management of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus — United States, July 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Preconception Counseling and Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus for Persons with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, September 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Women of Reproductive Age with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, July 2016 [2016]
    • Travel-Associated Zika Virus Disease Cases Among U.S. Residents — United States, January 2015–February 2016 [2016]
    • Transmission of Zika Virus Through Sexual Contact with Travelers to Areas of Ongoing Transmission — Continental United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Revision to CDC’s Zika Travel Notices: Minimal Likelihood for Mosquito-Borne Zika Virus Transmission at Elevations Above 2,000 Meters [2016]
    • Preventing Transmission of Zika Virus in Labor and Delivery Settings Through Implementation of Standard Precautions — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Possible Zika Virus Infection Among Pregnant Women — United States and Territories, May 2016 [2016]
    • Patterns in Zika Virus Testing and Infection, by Report of Symptoms and Pregnancy Status — United States, January 3–March 5, 2016 [2016]
    • Interim Guidelines for the Evaluation and Testing of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Interim Guidelines for Pregnant Women During a Zika Virus Outbreak — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Interim Guidance for Zika Virus Testing of Urine — United States, 2016 [2016]
    • Interim Guidance for Interpretation of Zika Virus Antibody Test Results [2016]
    • Contraceptive Use Among Nonpregnant and Postpartum Women at Risk for Unintended Pregnancy, and Female High School Students, in the Context of Zika Preparedness — United States, 2011–2013 and 2015 [2016]
    • Zika Virus
  • National Academies Press
    • Potential Research Priorities to Inform Public Health and Medical Practice for Domestic Zika Virus [2016]
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    • Zika Virus
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Ultrasound screening for fetal microcephaly following Zika virus exposure [2016]
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Preparedness for Zika virus testing in the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO guidelines for the prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus: executive summary [2019]
    • Zika virus: an epidemiological update [2017]
    • Zika virus, microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome situation report [2017]
    • Zika virus country classification scheme: interim guidance [2017]
    • Zika virus and potential complications: Questions and answers [2017]
    • WHO toolkit for the care and support of people affected by complications associated with Zika virus [2017]
    • Sexual transmission of Zika Virus: Current status, challenges and research priorities [2017]
    • Zika virus infection: global update on epidemiology and potentially associated clinical manifestations [2016]
    • Women in the context of microcephaly and Zika virus disease [2016]
    • Vector control operations framework for Zika virus [2016]
    • Surveillance for Zika virus infection, microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome: Interim guidance [2016]
    • Screening, assessment and management of neonates and infants with complications associated with Zika virus exposure in utero [2016]
    • Risk communication in the context of Zika virus: Interim guidance [2016]
    • Psychosocial support for pregnant women and for families with microcephaly and other neurological complications in the context of Zika virus: interim guidance for health-care providers [2016]
    • Prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus: Interim guidance [2016]
    • Pregnancy management in the context of Zika virus, interim guidance [2016]
    • Laboratory testing for Zika virus infection: Interim guidance [2016]
    • Infant feeding in areas of Zika virus transmission [2016]
    • Collaborative study to evaluate a candidate World Health Organization International Standard for Zika virus for Nucleic Acid Amplification Technique (NAT)-Based assays [2016]
    • Breastfeeding in the context of Zika virus: Interim guidance [2016]
    • Zika virus: Fact sheet
    • Zika virus situation reports
    • Zika virus and complications
    • Infant feeding in areas of Zika virus transmission
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