Bottlenecks for high coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy: The case of adolescent pregnancies in rural burkina faso

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Grietens, Koen Peeters ^a,b   Gies, Sabine ^a   Coulibaly, Sheick Oumar ^c,d   Ky, Clotilde ^d   Somda, Judith ^d   Toomer, Elizabeth ^b   Ribera, Joan Muela ^b   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b PASS International   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^d Laboratoire National de Sante Publique   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIMIGRAVIDA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRUG COMBINATION; ETHNOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SHAME; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BURKINA FASO; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALARIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; PYRIMETHAMINE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SHAME; SULFADOXINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957772034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012013     Document Type: Article

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