Rolling Back Malaria in Pregnancy

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Abstract
Malarial infection during pregnancy is a major public health problem in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. In endemic areas, pregnant women are the main group of adults at risk for malaria. Although 40 percent of the world's population is at risk for malaria, in pregnant women the disease has been most widely evaluated in sub-Saharan Africa, where 90 percent of the global burden of malaria and deaths from the disease occur. Plasmodium falciparum infection during pregnancy increases the chance of maternal anemia, abortion, stillbirth, prematurity, intrauterine growth retardation, and low birth weight (defined as a weight of <2500 . . .