Clara Menéndez and colleagues conducted a randomized controlled trial among HIV-positive pregnant women in Kenya, Mozambique, and Tanzania to investigate the safety and efficacy of mefloquine as intermittent preventative therapy for malaria in women receiving cotrimoxazole prophylaxis and long-lasting insecticide treated nets. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

Public health programmes in Mozambique should focus on early HIV diagnosis, early ART initiation and adherence support. Virological monitoring drastically improves the diagnosis of ART failure, enabling a better use of resources.

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Interferon-γ–inducible protein-10 is an affordable and easily quantifiable biomarker that can be used to accurately screen individuals on antiretroviral treatment (ART) for detectable viremia, optimizing the use of costly viral load determinations required to monitor ART in low-income countries.

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