Free treatment, rapid malaria diagnostic tests and malaria village workers can hasten progress toward achieving the malaria related millennium development goals: The Médecins Sans Frontières experience from Chad, Sierra-Leone and Mali

Journal of Public Health in Africa

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-53

  Tayler Smith, Katie ^a   Kociejowski, Alice ^b   de Lamotte, Nadine ^a   Gerard, Seco ^a   Ponsar, Frederique ^a   Philips, Mit ^a   Zachariah, Rony ^a  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Belgium)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artemisinin based combination therapy; Malaria; Millennium development goals; Mortality; Rapid diagnosis tests

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHAD; COMMUNITY CARE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEVER; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MALI; MEDICAL FEE; NONHUMAN; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 85007339147     PISSN: 20389922     EISSN: 20389930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jphia.2011.e12     Document Type: Article

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