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Rural Gambian women's reliance on health workers to deliver sulphadoxine – pyrimethamine as recommended intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy

BACKGROUND: The use of most anti-malarial medications is restricted during pregnancy, but two doses of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine are recommended after the first trimester as intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp). In The Gambia, only 32% of women receive two doses and very little res...

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Autores principales: Brabin, Loretta, Stokes, Elizabeth, Dumbaya, Isatou, Owens, Stephen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2655301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19216759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-25