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Filter by:This study seeks to determine whether screening pregnant women for malaria with malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) may detect placental infection and predict risk of poor birth outcomes due to malaria in areas of varied malaria transmission in Africa.
The effectiveness of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in malaria-endemic areas the effectiveness and efficacy of SP may be compromised by increased SP resistance. This study will evaluate the efficacy of SP by giving SP to asymptomatic parasitemic pregnant women and following them to determine the rates of parasite clearance.