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Community referral in home management of malaria in western Uganda: A case series study

BACKGROUND: Home Based Management of fever (HBM) was introduced as a national policy in Uganda to increase access to prompt presumptive treatment of malaria. Pre-packed Chloroquine/Fansidar combination is distributed free of charge to febrile children <5 years. Persisting fever or danger signs ar...

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Autores principales:	Källander, Karin, Tomson, Göran, Nsungwa-Sabiiti, Jesca, Senyonjo, Yahaya, Pariyo, George, Peterson, Stefan
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2006
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1434779/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16539744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-6-2

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