Feasibility and acceptability of home-based management of malaria strategy adapted to Sudan's conditions using artemisinin-based combination therapy and rapid diagnostic test

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Elmardi, Khalid A ^a   Malik, Elfatih M ^a   Abdelgadir, Tarig ^a   Ali, Salah H ^a   Elsyed, Abdalla H ^a   Mudather, Mahmoud A ^a   Elhassan, Asma H ^a   Adam, Ishag ^b  

^a FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; FANSIDAR; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MONITORING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SUDAN; AGED; ANIMAL; DRUG COMBINATION; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEVER; HEALTH AUXILIARY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUDAN; SULFADOXINE; VOLUNTARY WORKERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149085588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-39     Document Type: Article

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