Early treatment of childhood fevers with pre-packaged antimalarial drugs in the home reduces severe malaria morbidity in Burkina Faso

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-139

  Sirima, Sodiomon Bienvenu ^a   Konaté, Amadou ^a   Tiono, Alfred B ^a   Convelbo, Nathalie ^a   Cousens, Simon ^b   Pagnoni, Franco ^a,c  

^a MINISTÈRE DE LA SANTÉ   (Burkina Faso)

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

^c Dir Generale Cooperazione Sviluppo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Child mortality; Children; Malaria morbidity; Pre packaged antimalarial drugs; Self treatment

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CHLOROQUINE;

DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG PRESCRIBING; MALARIA; MORBIDITY;

ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIMALARIALS; ASPIRIN; BURKINA FASO; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG PACKAGING; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOTHERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SELF MEDICATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BURKINA FASO;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037331138     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.00997.x     Document Type: Article

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