The effectiveness and perception of the use of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy programme in Offinso district of ashanti region, Ghana

BACKGROUND: Malaria in pregnant women has been shown to be associated with low birth weight, stillbirth and mortality in newborns. The WHO has adopted the use of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) to control malaria, a disease which worsens the plight of pregnant women leading to low birth weight, stil...

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Autores principales: Tutu, Emmanuel Osei, Lawson, Bernard, Browne, Edmund
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22206597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-385

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