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From VOA Learning English,
this is the Health Report.
Malaria kills about 200,000 newborn babies
and 10,000 new mothers every year.
Most of these death are in Africa.
Malaria can also cause mothers
to lose their babies before they are born,
or cause a baby to be born early.
There are low cost ways to prevent malaria infection.
But a new study find
that many pregnant women do not receive these interventions.
For example, for the past 20 years,
the World Health Organization (WHO) has advised pregnant women
in areas with high rates of malaria
to sleep on the bed nets treated with insecticide.
The WHO also advised them to get what is known as
intermittent preventive treatment, or IPT.
This treatment involves take in a low cost
anti-malaria drug at certain times in the pregnancy
in an effort to prevent the disease.
The WHO recommends that
pregnant women receive the medicine
usually around 4 times during visits to a clinic.
Many pregnant women and new mothers
go to medical clinics in sub-saharan Africa.
Yet researchers say only about 21 percent
receive intermittent preventive treatment
during their pregnancy,
and less than 40 percent are given protective bed nets.
Jenny Hill from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
is program manager for a research partnership
called the Malaria and Pregnancy Consortium.
Miss Hill says a review of 98 studies
found a number of barriers to malaria prevention,
these included unclear policy and guidance
from government ministers and health care officials.
Other problems include drug shortages,
a lack of clean water,
and confusion about how to administer IPT.
"They were unclear on when to give it
whether it could be given to women on an empty stomach,
whether it should be given under observation in clinics,
and so on and so forth."
Miss Hill says free intermittent preventive treatment
is the policy in 37 countries across the region.
But the researchers found that anti-natal clinics or ANCs
may charge fees,
that can keep some preganat women from returning.
Miss Hill says countries can reduce the number of deaths
and early births due to malaria
by following the WHO policy
on intermittent preventive treatment.
She says governments should also provide more money in their budgets
for anti-malaria drug, so there are no shortages.
Also they should publicize the importance
of malaria prevention among women
at highest risk for the disease.
The journal PLoS Medicine
published the analysis of maternal
and infant malaria prevention measures.
And that's the Health Report from VOA Learning English.
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I'm Jim Tedder.
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