Home- or community-based programmes for treating malaria

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Okwundu, Charles I ^a,b   Nagpal, Sukrti ^c   Musekiwa, Alfred ^a,d   Sinclair, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE; HEMOGLOBIN; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; QUININE;

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ANEMIA; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEVER; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STAFF TRAINING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; EDUCATION; HOME CARE; INFANT; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; METHODOLOGY;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEVER; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MOTHERS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84891703268     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009527.pub2     Document Type: Review

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