USAID Advancing Nutrition

Controlling Maternal Anemia and Malaria: Folic Acid and Malaria in Pregnancy Brief

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MATERNAL AND CHILD SURVIVAL PROGRAM

Controlling Maternal Anemia and Malaria: Folic Acid and Malaria in Pregnancy Brief

This document is a brief on controlling maternal anemia and malaria, focusing on the importance of providing an integrated package of interventions to prevent malaria, iron deficiency, and anemia in pregnancy.

2015

Abstract

It highlights the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation to prevent anemia. The brief emphasizes the need to limit the dose of folic acid to less than 5 mg to ensure the effectiveness of SP as an antimalarial and provides guidance on counseling, supervision, and follow-up for health workers administering IPTp-SP and IFA supplements.

Classification

Document type: Program & Activity Overviews

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