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PREMA-EU Newsletter

The PREMA-EU Newsletter is now available in pdf format.
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Issue 4 NEW!
Issue 3
Issue 2
Issue 1

Articles from the newsletter are also available separately in html format:

Issue 4

• Malaria among pregnant women in Papua New Guinea by Ivo Mueller, Stephen Rogerson, John Reeder, PNG Institute of Medical Research, P.O. Box 60, Goroka, Papua New Guinea and Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia
• Malaria in Pregnancy in India by Neeru Singh, Malaria Research Centre Field Station, RMRC Campus, Nagpur Road, Garha, Jabalpur 482003, India

Issue 3

• Insecticide-treated nets for the control of malaria in pregnancy: a summary of seven controlled studies, by Feiko ter Kuile
• Vouchers for insecticide-treated nets in Tanzania, by Christian Lengeler
• Towards the integration of interventions for the control of malaria in pregnancy into reproductive health services in the ocntext of the HIV/AIDS eopidemic, by Juliana Yartey

Issue 2

• Antimalarial intermittent treatment during pregnancy: how do we ensure coverage and compliance in Africa?, by P Magnussen
• Prevention and Control of Malaria in Pregnancy: The Uganda experience, by Patrobas Mufubenga

Issue 1

• Antimalarial Intermittent Treatment during Pregnancy in Africa, by TK. Mutabingwa
• The use of artemisinin derivatives in pregnancy: the experience on the Thai-Burma border, by Rose McGready
• Ghana Moves Towards Intermittent Presumptive Treatment in Pregnancy, by Kojo Yeboah-Antwi and Constance Marfo

PREMA-EU scientific sessions

Abstracts of PREMA-EU papers presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting held in December 2003.

Abstracts of papers presented at the 3rd PREMA-EU annual partners' meeting, held in Amsterdam in April 2003.

Other articles

Post-neonatal infant mortality in Malawi: the importance of maternal health, by Verhoeff F, le Cessie S, Kalanda B, Kazembe P, Broadhead R, Brabin B. This article was published in Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, 24, 2004, pp 161-169, and is posted with permission from Maney Publishing, London.

Malaria and pregnancy: Clinical study in a general hospital of Sucre, Venezuela, 2000-2002, by Sanchez E, Vargas M, Piccolo C, Colina R, Arria M, Rodriguez AJ.
Abstract published in Venezuelan Journal of Infectious Diseases 2003; 14:35-36

The contribution of malaria, by Bernard J Brabin and Francine Verhoeff. (pdf format) Chapter 6 in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, by AB MacLean and JP Neilson. RCOG Press, 2002.
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Do disturbances within the folate pathway contribute to low birth weight in malaria? Bernard J. Brabin, K. Alexander Fletcher and Nicholas Brown. (html format)
This article was published in Trends in Parasitology, 19(1), January 2003, pp 39-43, Copyright 2003, and is posted with permission from Elsevier Science.

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