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It is not true that pregnant women in endemic areas should
receive prophylaxis with weekly chloroquine. This intervention
would not be effective because of increasing chloroquine resistance,
and because of low compliance to this weekly regimen. WHO recommends
the following interventions to prevent and control malaria during
pregnancy: a) Intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine
(IPT/SP); b) Use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs); and c) Effective
case management of malaria illness and anemia.
Page last modified : May 21, 2004
Content source: Division of Parasitic Diseases
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases (ZVED)
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