Timing of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria during pregnancy and the implications of current policy on early uptake in north-east Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Anders, Katherine ^a   Marchant, Tanya ^a   Chambo, Pili ^b   Mapunda, Pasiens ^c   Reyburn, Hugh ^a,b  

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

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; MEDICAL STAFF; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TANZANIA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL CARE; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44349118596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-79     Document Type: Article

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