Scale-up of home-based management of malaria based on rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapy in a resource-poor country: Results in Senegal

Malaria Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Thiam, Sylla ^a   Thwing, Julie ^b   Diallo, Ibrahima ^c   Fall, Fatou B ^c   Diouf, Mame B ^c   Perry, Robert ^b   Ndiop, Medoune ^c   Diouf, Mamadou L ^c   Cisse, Moustapha M ^c   Diaw, Mamadou M ^d   Thior, Moussa ^c  

^a AMREF HEALTH AFRICA   (Kenya)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Prog Natl de Lutte Contre le SIDA   (Senegal)

^d Centre d'Orientation Scolaire et Professionnelle de Diourbel   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Community; Diagnosis; Home based management; Malaria; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SCALE UP; SENEGAL; ADOLESCENT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG COMBINATION; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; SENEGAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866544179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-334     Document Type: Article

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