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Effectiveness of artemisinin-based combination therapy used in the context of home management of malaria: A report from three study sites in sub-Saharan Africa

BACKGROUND: The use of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) at the community level has been advocated as a means to increase access to effective antimalarial medicines by high risk groups living in underserved areas, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. This strategy has been shown to be feasible an...

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Autores principales:	Ajayi, Ikeoluwapo O, Browne, Edmund N, Bateganya, Fred, Yar, Denis, Happi, Christian, Falade, Catherine O, Gbotosho, Grace O, Yusuf, Bidemi, Boateng, Samuel, Mugittu, Kefas, Cousens, Simon, Nanyunja, Miriam, Pagnoni, Franco
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2008
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2567328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18822170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-7-190

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