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Mobile phones, HIV medicines hurting your unborn baby

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Overuse of mobile phones and HIV medicines is bad for pregnant mothers, researchers have warned.

A follow-up of 322 Kenyan mothers who conceived while on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs showed high rates of premature deliveries, miscarriages and stillbirths.

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