Rural Gambian women's reliance on health workers to deliver sulphadoxine - Pyrimethamine as recommended intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Brabin, Loretta ^a   Stokes, Elizabeth ^a   Dumbaya, Isatou ^b   Owens, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; FANSIDAR; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GAMBIA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RELIGION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL CARE; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SULFADOXINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62449341771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-25     Document Type: Article

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