The call is not “global” since it focuses only on certain areas of sub-Saharan Africa. In areas of low transmission, the malaria attributable maternal mortality can be higher than that in hyper-endemic Africa [
4]. Chico et al. start their paper with the usual misleading statement, about
preventing malaria in pregnancy, while in fact IPTp-SP (sometimes and more correctly referred to as Intermittent
Presumptive treatment [
5]) is about episodic treatments of
P. falciparum infections in pregnant women living in rapidly shrinking areas of Africa where SP remains effective,
de-
facto ignoring the millions of women exposed to all malaria species elsewhere in Africa and in the rest of the world.