Malaria
Publications and Materials
Below are selected publications and materials related to malaria. Please note the year of publication may be later than the year(s) the data represent.
2005 Publications and Materials
Easy Read Pregnancy,
Travel, and Malaria: A Cautionary Tale (10/30/05)
All travelers to malaria-risk areas should take precautions against this dangerous
mosquito-borne disease. Pregnant women who are at especially high risk should
avoid traveling to malaria-risk areas if at all possible. If a pregnant woman
must travel to a malaria-risk area, she should make sure to take all necessary
precautions (including antimalaria pills) against malaria.
Congenital
Malaria- Nassau County, New York, 2004 (5/30/05)
PDF (p. 383) 
This report describes the first documented case of congenital malaria
acquired in Nassau County, New York, which is the fifth case of congenital
malaria reported in the United States since 2000. Health-care providers
should consider malaria as a diagnosis in neonates and young infants,
particularly those with fever, whose mothers emigrated from areas where
malaria is endemic.
2004 Publications and Materials
Malaria during Pregnancy (9/30/04)
Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to malaria. In areas where malaria
is common, health ministries now strive to make malaria prevention part of normal
antenatal care. Infection with P. falciparum during pregnancy increases the mother’s
risk of developing severe disease and anemia, and increases the risk of stillbirth
and prematurity.
Maternal Malaria
and Perinatal HIV Transmission, Western Kenya (3/30/04)
This evaluation of perinatal HIV transmission in a malarious area of
western Kenya demonstrated that approximately 20% of infants born to
HIV-infected mothers acquired HIV by 4 months of age, similar to rates
reported in other sub-Saharan African settings. Consistent with other
studies, maternal viral load in peripheral blood at the time of delivery
and having an episiotomy or perineal tear were risk factors for perinatal
mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT). Women with placental malaria
had lower rates of perinatal MTCT than women without placental malaria.
However, women with high-density malaria had significantly higher rates
of perinatal MTCT than parasitemic women with low-density malaria. Malaria
during pregnancy is a serious problem in sub-Saharan Africa, affecting
an estimated 24 million pregnant women; malaria prevalence may exceed
50% among primigravid and secundigravid women in malaria-endemic areas.
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