Perinatal AIDS

Placental malaria increases mother-to-child HIV transmission

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 25th, 2003

Placental malaria infection during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Their study of HIV-positive women living in Rakia, Uganda, found that the mother-to-child HIV transmission rates were 40% among women with placental malaria compared to 15.4% for women without malaria. The researchers believe that interventions to prevent malaria during pregnancy could potentially reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

The study, which is the first to look at the effects of placental malaria in mother-to-child HIV transmission, is...

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