Latest Research 
 Costs Associated with Low Birth Weight in a Rural Area
of Southern Mozambique
December 2011
Low Birth Weight (LBW) is prevalent in low-income countries. Even
though the economic evaluation of interventions to reduce this burden
is essential to guide health policies, data on costs associated with
LBW are scarce. This study aimed to estimate the costs to the health
system and to the household and the Disability Adjusted Life Years
(DALYs) arising from infant deaths associated with LBW in Southern
Mozambique.
 Adverse effects of
falciparum and vivax malaria and the safety of antimalarial treatment in early
pregnancy: a population-based study
December 2011
The effects of malaria and its treatment in the first trimester of pregnancy
remain an area of concern. We
aimed to assess the outcome of malaria-exposed
and malaria-unexposed first-trimester pregnancies of women from the Thai–Burmese
border and compare outcomes after chloroquine-based, quinine-based, or
artemisinin-based treatments.
 Effects of malaria and its treatment in early
pregnancy
December 2011
Malaria can have devastating consequences for pregnant women and their
developing fetuses. The lack of information on the effect of malaria in the
first trimester has been previously identified as an important knowledge gap in
estimating the burden of malaria in pregnancy.
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Latest News
 MiP Consortium Safety Working Group to present at ASTMH 2011 Conference, Philadelphia
December 2011
Members of the MiP Consortium Safety Working Group, Esperanca Sevene and Cheryl Pace, will present safety data as part of the ACT Consortium symposium during the forthcoming ASTMH 2011 Conference, Philadelphia, on 5th December 2011, between 10:15 a.m – 12:15 p.m., location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hotel, Grand Ballroom Salon G.
For further details about the 2011 conference please visit the ASTMH website.
MiP Consortium symposium at the 7th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH, Barcelona
4 October, 2011
The Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium to host a MiP symposium at the 7th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH, Barcelona, 3 - 6 October, 2011. Further details of the symposium will be posted on the Congress website in due course.
Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium Annual meeting, Maputo
1-3 June 2011
The MiP Consortium recently held their fourth annual meeting at the Cardoso Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique between 1-3 June 2011 co-funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and EDCTP. The three day meeting was hosted by Dr. Eusebio Macete, Director of the Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM) (www.manhica.org) and was officially opened by the Mozambican Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Nazira Vali, who stressed the continuing importance of tackling malaria in pregnancy.
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