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Feasibility and acceptability of ACT for the community case management of malaria in urban settings in five African sites

BACKGROUND: The community case management of malaria (CCMm) is now an established route for distribution of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in rural areas, but the feasibility and acceptability of the approach through community medicine distributors (CMD) in urban areas has not been expl...

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Autores principales:	Akweongo, Patricia, Agyei-Baffour, Peter, Sudhakar, Morankar, Simwaka, Bertha N, Konaté, Amadou T, Adongo, Philip B, Browne, Edmund NL, Tegegn, Ayalew, Ali, Doreen, Traoré, Abdoulaye, Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary, Pagnoni, Franco, Barnish, Guy
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2011
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3176255/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21846368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-240

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