Impact of Improving Community-Based Access to Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment on Household Costs

Background. Community health workers (CHWs) were trained in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Uganda to diagnose febrile children using malaria rapid diagnostic tests, and treat positive malaria cases with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and those who could not take oral medicines with rectal a...

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Autores principales: Castellani, Joëlle, Nsungwa-Sabiiti, Jesca, Mihaylova, Borislava, Ajayi, IkeOluwapo O., Siribié, Mohamadou, Afonne, Chinenye, Balyeku, Andrew, Sermé, Luc, Sanou, Armande K., Sombié, Benjamin S., Tiono, Alfred B., Sirima, Sodiomon B., Kabarungi, Vanessa, Falade, Catherine O., Kyaligonza, Josephine, Evers, Silvia M. A. A., Paulus, Aggie T. G., Petzold, Max, Singlovic, Jan, Gomes, Melba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
Materias:
Malaria in Highly Endemic Areas: Improving Control through Diagnosis, Artemisinin Combination Therapy, and Rectal Artesunate Treatment
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5146695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27941102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw623

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