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Improving childhood malaria treatment and referral practices by training patent medicine vendors in rural south-east Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five years of age in Nigeria. Most of the early treatments for fever and malaria occur through self-medication with anti-malarials bought over-the-counter (OTC) from untrained drug vendors. Self-medication thro...
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784476/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19930561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-260 |