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Malaria still
remains an important public health problem in the region and negatively
impacts children’s and pregnant women’s health. A multifaceted approach
directed both towards prevention and treatment of the disease and other
socio-economic and political factors (education, poverty, health
infrastructures, political commitment and collaboration between scientists
and policy-makers etc.) would be more efficient in the control of the
disease and its adverse effects on maternal and child health. Therefore,
there is a need to explore new other control strategies to prevent malaria
in these high risk groups. Research is needed to find the most efficacious,
cost-effectiveness preventive regimen and delivery mechanisms to prevent
infection during pregnancy. Research is also needed to better understand the
dominant underlying mechanisms of malarial anemia, and how these mechanisms
are different in mild/moderate and severe anemia and their relationships
with low birth weight. |