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Study: Drugs used in malaria treatment for pregnant women no longer effective

The widely used and only treatment in malaria prevention in pregnant women may no longer be effective in treating the disease. As such, pregnant women are at a higher risk of malaria infection in areas where drug resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is rising. This is according to a study led by a team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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