Rolling back malaria: Opportunities and challenges

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 403-406

  Nafo Traoré, Fatoumata ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE; DELTAMETHRIN; FANSIDAR; INSECTICIDE; PERMETHRIN; POLYESTER; POLYETHYLENE;

AFRICA; ANEMIA; BED NET; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG COST; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHELF LIFE; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BEDDING AND LINENS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LACTONES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 17144413766     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.02.002     Document Type: Editorial

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