Prospects, achievements, challenges and opportunities for scaling-up malaria chemoprevention in pregnancy in Tanzania: The perspective of national level officers

Malaria Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mubyazi, Godfrey M ^a,b   Bygbjerg, Ib C ^c   Magnussen, Pascal ^d   Olsen, Øystein ^d   Byskov, Jens ^d   Hansen, Kristian S ^e   Bloch, Paul ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; FANSIDAR; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BUDGET; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; SCALE UP; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHEMOPREVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TANZANIA;

EID: 49349084329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-135     Document Type: Article

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