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Community perceptions of malaria and malaria treatment behaviour in a rural district of Ghana: implications for artemisinin combination therapy

BACKGROUND: Artesunate-amodiaquine (AS-AQ) was introduced in Ghana as the first line drug for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in 2004. We report the perceptions of malaria and malaria treatment behaviour, the community awareness of and perceptions about AS-AQ two years after the introduction of t...

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Autores principales:	Asante, Kwaku P, Abokyi, Livesy, Zandoh, Charles, Owusu, Ruth, Awini, Elizabeth, Sulemana, Abubakari, Amenga-Etego, Seeba, Adda, Robert, Boahen, Owusu, Segbaya, Sylvester, Mahama, Emmanuel, Bart-Plange, Constance, Chandramohan, Daniel, Owusu-Agyei, Seth
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2010
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2914078/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20624306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-409

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