Sustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural Gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 768-772

  Menon, A ^a   Snow, R W ^a   Byass, P ^a   Greenwood, B M ^a   Hayes, R J ^b   N'Jie, A B H ^c  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Medical and Health Department ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAPSONE; MALOPRIM; PLACEBO; PYRIMETHAMINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; CHILD MORTALITY--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; DRUGS--ADMINISTRACTION AND DOSAGE; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; EXAMINATIONS AND DIAGNOSES; FIELD WORKERS; GAMBIA; HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY EXAMINATIONS AND DIAGNOSES; MALARIA; MEASUREMENT; MORBIDITY--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; MORTALITY; PARASITIC DISEASES; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; TREATMENT; WESTERN AFRICA;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; DAPSONE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PYRIMETHAMINE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0025636040     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(90)90071-L     Document Type: Article

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