Use of intermittent presumptive treatment and insecticide treated bed nets by pregnant women in four Kenyan districts

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-261

  Guyatt, H L ^a,b,d   Noor, A M ^a   Ochola, S A ^c   Snow, R W ^a,b  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Chemoprophylaxis; Kenya; Malaria; Pregnant women; Sulphadoxine pyrimethamine; Treated bednets

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR; INSECTICIDE;

DISEASE CONTROL; IMPREGNATED BEDNET; INSECTICIDE; MALARIA; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PRECAMBRIAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCALE UP; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; KENYA; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL CARE; PYRIMETHAMINE; RURAL HEALTH; SULFADOXINE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 1342301502     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01193.x     Document Type: Article

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