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Big impacts seen in Ghana with use of preventive malaria treatment in pregnancy
2020
Dr Keziah L. Malm
To protect pregnant women and their unborn babies from malaria, the World Health Organization recommends a package of interventions that includes the administration of IPTp-SP (intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine).
1 In malaria-endemic areas in Africa, all eligible pregnant women should receive at least 3 doses of quality-assured SP as part of antenatal care.
2 IPTp-SP reduces maternal anaemia, neonatal mortality, and low birthweight,
3 but uptake has remained low in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
4 In 2020, the RBM Partnership’s Malaria in Pregnancy working group launched an urgent appeal to African leaders to expand coverage of IPTp-SP. To mark Universal Health Coverage Day, MMV caught up with Keziah L. Malm about how Ghana has scaled up this lifesaving intervention.
of the candies foundation speaking out and making appearances about teen pregnancy prevention. some expectations of what she s been paid and what the candies foundation spent on anti-teen pregnancy programs. the candies foundation said that bristol was not being compensated for her work. but they released their tax returns and it turns out they paid bristol $262,000 for a year s worth of making ads and doing handful of public appearances for them. whereas they gave anti-teen pregnancy initiatives a meager $35,000. interesting. so they paid her more than they spent the entire year on the campaign? okay. yep. did the candies foundation exist before it hired bristol palin? yeah, they did, actually. they were found in 2001. they had used celebrity spokespersons to discuss the negative consequences of teen sex. this is the first time they had somebody who got pregnant in her high school years discussing the
reporter: outside boehner s home, a small protest. blocking pregnancy programs, economists estimate 200,000 to 800,000 jobs would be lost to boehner s cuts. listen, i don t want anyone to lose their job, whether they re a federal employee or not. but come on, we re broke. reporter: the republican party posted a reminder on youtube. it s the second anniversary of the obama stimulus plan. the debt has increased. unemployment is still over 9%. the president says the stimulus worked. we re now growing again. we ve seen 1.3 million jobs added in the private sector since i ve been president. reporter: meanwhile, the clock is ticking. two weeks until the government could shut down. to prevent that, democrats demanded boehner agree to short-term economy.