Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: a new delivery system and its effect on maternal health and pregnancy outcomes in Uganda.

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether traditional birth attendants, drug-shop vendors, community reproductive-health workers, or adolescent peer mobilizers could administer intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) for malaria with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine to pregnant women. METHODS: A non-randomized communi...

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Publicado en:Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 86; no. 2; pp. 93 - 101
Autores principales: Mbonye AK, Bygbjerg IC, Magnussen P
Formato: clinical trial research Journal Article
Publicado: World Health Organization Feb2008
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