Appropriate targeting of artemisinin-based combination therapy by community health workers using malaria rapid diagnostic tests: findings from randomized trials in two contrasting areas of high and low malaria transmission in south-western Uganda

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1157-1170

  Ndyomugyenyi, Richard ^a   Magnussen, Pascal ^b   Lal, Sham ^c   Hansen, Kristian ^c   Clarke, Siân E ^c  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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

Author keywords

appropriately targeted treatment; artemisinin based combination therapy (ACT); community case management; community health workers (CHWs); Rapid diagnostic test (RDT); Uganda

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE;

ANTARCTIC TREATY; BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG; ECTOPARASITE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH WORKER; MALARIA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MALE; PARASITEMIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; UGANDA;

UGANDA;

EID: 84985993609     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12748     Document Type: Article

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