Feasibility and acceptability of ACT for the community case management of malaria in urban settings in five African sites

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Akweongo, Patricia ^a   Agyei Baffour, Peter ^b   Sudhakar, Morankar ^c   Simwaka, Bertha N ^d   Konaté, Amadou T ^e   Adongo, Philip B ^a   Browne, Edmund N L ^b   Tegegn, Ayalew ^c   Ali, Doreen ^f   Traoré, Abdoulaye ^e   Amuyunzu Nyamongo, Mary ^g   Pagnoni, Franco ^h   Barnish, Guy ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d Research for Equity and Community Health Trust   (Malawi)

^e Burkina Faso   (Burkina Faso)

^f Malawi National Malaria Control Program   (Malawi)

^g African Institute for Health and Development   (Kenya)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Le Moncheny ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE PLUS ARTESUNATE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISIN; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; LACTONE;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT DURATION; URBAN AREA; CASE MANAGEMENT; DRUG COMBINATION; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICA; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LACTONES; MALARIA; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80051617265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-240     Document Type: Article

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