How can I prevent malaria during pregnancy

Malaria is very dangerous for pregnant women. As preventive treatment, pregnant women in malarial areas, especially those in their first pregnancy, who can be asymptomatic (without symptoms), should take antimalarial tablets in the second and third trimesters, as recommended by a trained health worker. The health worker will know which antimalarial tablets are best to take. It is also very important that pregnant women sleep under insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

Pregnant women with signs and symptoms of Plasmodium falciparum malaria must be treated immediately by a trained health worker with quinine in the first trimester and ACTs in the second and third trimesters.

Sources

• Facts for Life https://factsforlife.org
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