Volume 10, Number 4, April 2004

Maternal Malaria and Perinatal HIV Transmission, Western Kenya

John G. Ayisi,*† Anna M. van Eijk,*† Robert D. Newman,‡ Feiko O. ter Kuile,*†‡ Ya Ping Shi,*‡ Chunfu Yang,‡ Margarette S. Kolczak,‡ Juliana A. Otieno,§ Ambrose O. Misore,§ Piet A. Kager,† Renu B. Lal,‡ Richard W. Steketee,‡ and Bernard L. Nahlen‡¶
*Centre for Vector Biology and Control Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya; †University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; §Ministry of Health, Kisumu, Kenya; and ¶World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Figure 1. The effect of viral load and placental malaria density on risk for perinatal HIV transmission, western Kenya, 1996–2001. Women with low- (<10,000 parasites/µL, circles) and high- (>10,000 parasites/µL, squares) density placental malaria are compared with women without placental malaria (represented by the horizontal dashed line). RR, relative risk. Error bars refer to 95% confidence interval.

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