BABIES whose mothers have both HIV and malaria are more at risk from malaria
than if their mother had malaria alone. HIV seems to weaken the protection
against malaria that mothers would otherwise transfer to their children.
Health researchers warn that the interaction between these two major threats
to health will complicate efforts to fight both diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
“Mothers, when they become pregnant, suddenly get horribly susceptible to
malaria. It’s a very big question as to why,” says Ora Lee Branch of the
parasitic diseases division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.…
