Gilding the Lily? Enhancing Antenatal Malaria Prevention in HIV-Infected Women
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Gilding the Lily? Enhancing Antenatal Malaria Prevention in HIV-Infected Women
In malaria-endemic Africa, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and malaria conspire to threaten maternal health: in some regions, nearly 12% of women are coinfected with HIV and malaria parasites during pregnancy [1–4]. Both HIV infection and antenatal malaria individually increase the risks of miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm delivery, and intrauterine growth retardation [1,5]; these ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0022-1899,1537-6613
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix111