Malaria in Pregnancy: A Call for Safe, Efficient, and Patient-Centred Approach to First-Trimester Treatment (The Lancet Global Health)
World Malaria Day 2018 was themed “Ready to beat malaria”, but key talking points that were circulated ignored an important group: pregnant women. Unpublished reports from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) programmes, in contexts where up to 50% of women attending antenatal care routinely test positive for malaria, suggest that current WHO recommendations on malaria in pregnancy cause confusion and may risk poor outcomes in this highly vulnerable population.
Rao, V. Bhargavi, Tomas O. Jensen, B. Carolina Jimenez et al., “Malaria in Pregnancy: A Call for Safe, Efficient, and Patient-Centred Approach to First-Trimester Treatment,” The Lancet Global Health (April 2018), doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30228-6
URL: www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30228-6/fulltext
