title: Acknowledging HIV and malaria as major causes of maternal mortality in Mozambique.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review national data on HIV and malaria as causes of maternal death and to determine the importance of looking at maternal mortality at a subnational level in Mozambique.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three national data surveys were used to document HIV and malaria as causes of maternal mortality and to assess HIV and malaria prevention services for pregnant women. Data were collected between 2007 and 2011, and included population-level verbal autopsy data and household survey data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Verbal autopsy data indicated that 18.2% of maternal deaths were due to HIV and 23.1% were due to malaria. Only 19.6% of recently pregnant women received at least two doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment, and only 42.3% of pregnant women were sleeping under an insecticide-treated net. Only 37.5% of recently pregnant women had been counseled, tested, and received an HIV test result. Coverage of prevention services varied substantially by province.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Triangulation of information on cause of death and coverage of interventions can enable appropriate targeting of maternal health interventions. Such information could also help countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to recognize and take action against malaria and HIV in an effort to decrease maternal mortality.
authors: MEASURE Evaluation/Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Electronic address: kavita_singh@unc.edu.
authors: Kavita
authors: K
authors: Singh
authors: Global Health Fellows Program II, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington DC, USA.
authors: Allisyn
authors: A
authors: Moran
authors: MEASURE Evaluation/Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Story
authors: FHI 360, Durham, NC, USA.
authors: Patricia
authors: P
authors: Bailey
authors: Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, Jhpiego, Maputo, Mozambique.
authors: Leonardo
authors: L
authors: Chavane
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000401:mortality*; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D009073:Mozambique / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000401:mortality*
keywords: HIV; Malaria; Maternal health; Maternal mortality; Mozambique