New malaria-control policies and child mortality in senegal: Reaching millennium development goal 4

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 672-679

  Trape, Jean Franois ^a   Sauvage, Claire ^a   Ndiaye, Ousmane ^a   Douillot, Laëtitia ^a   Marra, Adama ^a   Diallo, Aldiouma ^a   Cisse, Badara ^b,c   Greenwood, Brian ^c   Milligan, Paul ^c   Sokhna, Cheikh ^a   Molez, Jean Franois ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFANT; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MENINGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENEGAL; TREND STUDY;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; SENEGAL;

EID: 84856292267     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir805     Document Type: Article

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