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- ACTs
- artemisinin-based combination therapies that treat Plasmodium falciparum malaria, the most serious type of malaria, which causes nearly all malaria deaths
- AIDS
- acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- ART
- antiretroviral therapy - a group of drugs used to treat HIV
- anaemia
- a blood deficiency that results in poor health, commonly caused by lack of iron in the diet
- BCG
- Bacille Calmette-Guérin – an anti-tuberculosis vaccine
- DTP or DPT
- diphtheria and tetanus toxoid with pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine
- eclampsia
- an illness that sometimes occurs during the later stages of pregnancy, which involves high blood pressure and can cause convulsions, sometimes followed by a coma
- expressed milk
- milk removed from the breast manually or by using a pump
- FGM/C
- female genital mutilation/cutting is any procedure that involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons
- fistula (obstetric)
- an abnormal opening between a woman's vagina and her bladder and/or rectum, through which urine and/or faeces continually leak; obstetric fistula is caused by complications during childbirth
- goitre
- an enlargement of the thyroid gland that causes a swelling of the neck and is a sign of iodine deficiency in the person's diet
- HepB
- Hepatitis B vaccine
- Hib
- Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine
- HIV
- human immunodeficiency virus
- infibulation
- the most extreme type of female genital mutilation, involving excision of part or all of the external genitalia and stitching or narrowing of the vaginal opening
- micronutrients
- nutrients needed in very small amounts for normal growth and development, e.g., a vitamin or mineral
- obstructed labour
- labour in which despite strong contractions of the uterus, the fetus cannot descend through the pelvis because a barrier prevents its descent
- opportunistic infections
- infections that take advantage of weakness in the immune system such as caused by HIV
- ORS
- oral rehydration salts
- PCP pneumonia
- pneumocystis pneumonia – a common 'opportunistic' infection in children and people living (infected) with HIV
- pentavalent vaccine
- a five-in-one vaccine that combines the DTP (also referred to as DPT), HepB, and Hib vaccines
- Plasmodium falciparum malaria
- the most serious type of malaria, which causes nearly all malaria deaths
- PMTCT
- prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- prolonged labour
- labour with a duration of more than 24 hours
- respiratory tract
- the system in the body that takes in and distributes oxygen
- STI
- sexually transmitted infection
- stillbirth
- the birth of a fetus that has died in the womb
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