Every year, approximately half a million women die during pregnancy, delivery, or the puerperium especially in low and middle income countries. Maternal mortality rates due to infectious diseases in majority of these countries now supersede mortality from obstetric causes. Infections and infestations are cruelly potent causes of morbidity and mortality in pregnant women, especially when combined with the poverty in which much of the low and middle income countries live. In the absence of good nutrition, sanitation, and health care, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria mean certain end to millions of pregnant women and their offspring who would survive and flourish elsewhere.

Screening for these killer infections within prenatal healthcare programs is essential at this stage to prevent and treat causes of maternal mortality. The combination of proven effective interventions that avert the greatest number of maternal deaths should be prioritized and expanded to cover the greatest number of women at risk. Though research and experience have clearly shown what needs to be done, what works and what does not, the effectiveness of these interventions in the presence of Malaria, HIV, and the reinsurgence of TB as a result of HIV will need to be determined.

We are interested in receiving original research articles and systematic reviews on all aspects of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria infections in pregnancy, ranging from articles on basic sciences, immunology, epidemiology, emerging clinical challenges, trials of interventions, and case series. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Recent developments in managing of HIV, TB, and Malaria in pregnancy
• Treatment outcomes in Malaria, TB, and HIV coinfection in pregnancy
• Recent advance in strategies for the reduction of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
• Effect of comorbidities of ATM on pregnancy outcome
• Latest technologies for clinical evaluation and measuring outcomes
• New strategies including low-cost tools to manage these conditions in pregnancy
• Role of services integration and tasking shifting in improving access to treatment, care, and support

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