In these regions, strategies to control malaria during pregnancy rely on case management of malaria illness and anemia, and a variety of preventive measures that consists of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and intermittent preventive therapy (IPT) with the malaria drug sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine. Among HIV-positive women in their first or second pregnancy, monthly IPT resulted in less placental malaria and higher birth weight over the range of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance tested (8 percent-39 percent). The current appraisal of available data on the efficacy of IPT with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine as a function of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine treatment responses in children provides policy makers with a clearer understanding of the value of different IPT regimens with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy in the context of increasing sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine drug resistance,” the authors write. This will also limit the options to monitor the degree of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in treatment studies in children in vivo, and future studies that aim to determine the effect of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance on the efficacy of IPT with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy may need to rely on molecular markers. read more

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Will pregnancy keep Nicole out of prison? Enlarge image Nicole Richie is hoping her pregnancy will keep her out of prison, according to US reports. It has been claimed that the Simple Life star is expecting her first child with rocker boyfriend Joel Madden. Richie faces a spell behind bars after she admitted driving her car under the influence of painkillers and marijuana. Rod Stewart weds in quiet Italian ceremony 2. read more

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Such cases, called ectopic pregnancies, can be detected even before it can be spotted by an ultrasound machine, said scientists at the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), a government organisation under the ministry of health and family welfare. A professor at the Reproductive Biomedicine Department of NIHFW, Srivastava claimed that technologies that were currently available could give a clear picture about the pregnancy only after the fifth week and at a much later timeframe in cases of ectopic pregnancies. In ectopic pregnancy, the foetus may get attached to fallopian tubes, abdomen or even the cervix area. The new kit can survive relatively high temperatures of 37 degrees Celsius for a period of three months and continue to give best results. NIHFW director Deoki Nandan said the institute has transferred the technology to the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), a wing of the Ministry of Science and Technology. read more

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