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Type: | Outro documento |
Title: | A decade of malaria during pregnancy in Brazil: what has been done concerning prevention and management |
Author: | Marchesini, Paola Costa, Fabio Trindade Maranhão Marinho, Claudio Romero Farias |
Abstract: | In Brazil, malaria remains a disease of major epidemiological importance because of the high number of cases in the Amazonian Region. Plasmodium spp infections during pregnancy are a significant public health problem with substantial risks for the pregnant woman, the foetus and the newborn child. In Brazil, the control of malaria during pregnancy is primarily achieved by prompt and effective treatment of the acute episodes. Thus, to assure rapid diagnosis and treatment for pregnant women with malaria, one of the recommended strategy for low transmission areas by World Health Organization and as part of a strategy by the Ministry of Health, the National Malaria Control Program has focused on integrative measures with woman and reproductive health. Here, we discuss the approach for the prevention and management of malaria during pregnancy in Brazil over the last 10 years (2003-2012) using morbidity data from Malaria Health Information System. Improving the efficiency and quality of healthcare and education and the consolidation of prevention programmes will be challenges in the control of malaria during pregnancy in the next decade |
Subject: | Epidemiologia |
Country: | Brasil |
Editor: | FIOCRUZ |
Rights: | Aberto |
Identifier DOI: | 10.1590/0074-0276140047 |
Address: | https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762014000500706 |
Date Issue: | 2014 |
Appears in Collections: | IB - Artigos e Outros Documentos |
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