Table 2.

Treatment priorities to reduce infection-related stillbirths

	Intervention	Rationale
Syphilis	Screening and treatment	Intervention is effective; scale-up strategies are needed, especially in areas of high prevalence
Malaria	Chemoprophylaxis (directed or intermittent); insecticide-treated bednets against malaria	Neither strategy has been tested for targeting of stillbirth specifically, but these strategies are effective against other malaria-related pregnancy outcomes
Measles, mumps, rubella, polio, varicella, influenza	Maternal vaccination	Effective for prevention of maternal disease and will probably prevent stillbirths associated with maternal infection in pregnancy; the contribution of these maternal infections to stillbirth in developing countries is unknown
Worms	Deworming	Associated with a decrease in stillbirths, but cause and effect has not been proven and the contribution to the burden of stillbirth is unknown