@article{214f50cc390442ca9e1d0866141fbfab,
title = "Malaria in pregnancy in the Asia-Pacific region",
abstract = "Most pregnant women at risk of for infection with Plasmodium vivax live in the Asia-Pacific region. However, malaria in pregnancy is not recognised as a priority by many governments, policy makers, and donors in this region. Robust data for the true burden of malaria throughout pregnancy are scarce. Nevertheless, when women have little immunity, each infection is potentially fatal to the mother, fetus, or both. WHO recommendations for the control of malaria in pregnancy are largely based on the situation in Africa, but strategies in the Asia-Pacific region are complicated by heterogeneous transmission settings, coexistence of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax parasites, and different vectors. Most knowledge of the epidemiology, effect, treatment, and prevention of malaria in pregnancy in the Asia-Pacific region comes from India, Papua New Guinea, and Thailand. Improved estimates of the morbidity and mortality of malaria in pregnancy are urgently needed. When malaria in pregnancy cannot be prevented, accurate diagnosis and prompt treatment are needed to avert dangerous symptomatic disease and to reduce effects on fetuses. � 2012 Elsevier Ltd.",
keywords = "antimalarial agent, artemether plus benflumetol, artemisinin, atovaquone, azithromycin, chloroquine, clindamycin, dihydroartemisinin plus piperaquine, insect repellent, mefloquine, proguanil, pyrimethamine plus sulfadoxine, quinine, virus vector, acute kidney failure, add on therapy, adverse outcome, anemia, birth weight, childhood disease, clinical feature, disease exacerbation, disease severity, drug efficacy, early diagnosis, fetus distress, follow up, gestational age, glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, health care policy, human, infection risk, jaundice, lung edema, malaria, malaria control, maternal mortality, monotherapy, patient compliance, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, postpartum hemorrhage, pregnancy, pregnant woman, priority journal, review, stillbirth, thrombocytopenia, virus transmission, Asia, Southeastern, Asia, Western, Birth Weight, Female, Humans, Malaria, Falciparum, Malaria, Vivax, Pacific Islands, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic",
author = "Marcus Rijken and R McGready and Machteld Boel and Poespoprodjo, {Jeanne Rini} and Neeru Singh and Din Syafruddin and Stephen Rogerson and Fran{\~A}§ois Nosten",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70315-2",
language = "English",
volume = "12",
pages = "75--88",
journal = "The Lancet Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1473-3099",
publisher = "The Lancet Publishing Group",
}