Placental malaria increases mother-to-child HIV transmission.Placental placental pertaining to or emanating from placenta. placental barrier the placental separation of maternal and fetal blood which varies in its structure and permeability between the species. malaria infection during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of mother-to-child transmission mother-to-child transmission Vertical transmission, see there of HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. , according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was the first institution of its kind in the world. Founded in 1916 by William H. Welch and John D. . Their study of HIV-positive women living in Rakia, Uganda, found that the mother-to-child HIV transmission rates were 40 percent among women with placental malaria compared to 15.4 percent 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 published in the November 2003 issue of the scientific journal AIDS. Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, http://www.jhsph.edu/PressRoom. |
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