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Scaling-up the use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: results and lessons on scalability, costs and programme impact from three local government areas in Sokoto State, Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with 3+ doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) reduces maternal mortality and stillbirths in malaria endemic areas. Between December 2014 and December 2015, a project to scale up IPTp-SP to all pregnant women was implemented...

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Autores principales: Orobaton, Nosa, Austin, Anne M., Abegunde, Dele, Ibrahim, Mohammed, Mohammed, Zainab, Abdul-Azeez, Jumare, Ganiyu, Hakeem, Nanbol, Zwalle, Fapohunda, Bolaji, Beal, Katherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5097385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27814763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1578-x