intermittent preventive treatment
Efficacy and safety of intermittent preventive treatment and intermittent screening and treatment versus single screening and treatment with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine for the control of malaria in pregnancy in Indonesia: a cluster randomised, open label, superiority trial
... with intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) or intermittent screening and treatment (IST) of malaria in ...few intermittent screening trials or chemoprevention trials in ...
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Uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy among women in selected communities of Ebonyi State, Nigeria
... of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy among women who had given birth in the past year prior to the survey, in selected communities in Ebonyi ...of intermittent ...
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Factors affecting providers’ delivery of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: a five country analysis of national service provision assessment surveys
... ANC attendance in sub-Saharan Africa has been referred to as a success story [39]. Among the five countries ana- lysed in this paper, coverage for at least two ANC visits approximated 90% (Table 3). Coverage of IPTp, ...
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Has doxycycline, in combination with anti malarial drugs, a role to play in intermittent preventive treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection in pregnant women in Africa?
... of intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (SP) at each antenatal care visit as early as 13 weeks of gestation until the time of delivery is a strategy that is ...
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Multiplicity of Plasmodium falciparum infection following intermittent preventive treatment in infants
... Intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) denotes the administration of a curative dose of an anti- malarial, commonly sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) at the times of routine vaccination, ...
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Anti bacterial activity of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: comparative in vitro study of sulphadoxine pyrimethamine, mefloquine, and azithromycin
... recommends intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with sul- phadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP-IPTp) in order to reduce adverse health outcomes for pregnant women and their offspring ...
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A Non-Inferiority, Individually Randomized Trial of Intermittent Screening and Treatment versus Intermittent Preventive Treatment in the Control of Malaria in Pregnancy
... effective treatment, insecticide treated bednets and intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine- pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) given at each antenatal clinic (ANC) attendance after the first ...
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Two year evaluation of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for Children (IPTc) combined with timely home treatment for malaria control in Ghana
... Intermittent preventive treatment for children (IPTc) IPTc was delivered every four months beginning in July 2007 (July, November 2007 and March 2008) and was evaluated in July, four months after the ...
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Azithromycin chloroquine and the intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy
... morbidity. Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) reduces the incidence of low birth- weight, pre-term delivery, intrauterine ...
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Utilization of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in health facilities of Cross River State, Nigeria
... of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy against the national treatment policy among women attending health care ...
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Clinical malaria among pregnant women on combined insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in Yaounde, Cameroon
... : Clinical malaria among pregnant women on combined insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in Yaounde, Cameroon. BMC[r] ...
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The promise and potential challenges of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants (IPTi)
... true, intermittent doses of drug could reduce the frequency of serious malaria episodes, while the intervals between doses of drug could permit infection and the development of ...
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Efficacy and safety of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in schoolchildren: a systematic review
... a malaria-endemic area; (I) Interventions: clinical trials evaluating the efficacy and safety of IPT; (C) Compari- sons: the efficacy of available drug regimes compared to each other or with placebo; (O) Outcomes: the ...
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Recent uptake of intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine is associated with increased prevalence of Pfdhfr mutations in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
... line treatment before 2005, but was increasingly used as a first-line drug after chloroquine was discontinued in 2005, when artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) was not yet readily available [23, ...
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User and Provider Acceptability of Intermittent Screening and Treatment and Intermittent Preventive Treatment with Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine to Prevent Malaria in Pregnancy in Western Kenya
... The qualitative study was conducted in the sites of the main trial in Siaya County, western Kenya, which was conducted between August 2012 and June 2014 [9]. Eligible women <32 weeks gestation attending for scheduled ...
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Submicroscopic malaria infection during pregnancy and the impact of intermittent preventive treatment
... There are several important features of this study that may limit the generalizability of the findings. Women had an average of six visits during the study and were screened with microscopy at each encounter. Thus, wo- ...
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Effectiveness of combined intermittent preventive treatment for children and timely home treatment for malaria control
... of intermittent pre- ventive treatment for children (IPTC) combined with timely treatment at home for malaria control, targeting children aged six to 60 months old in an all year round malaria ...
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Adherence to intermittent preventive treatment for malaria with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and outcome of pregnancy among parturients in South East Nigeria
... In conclusion, the potential coverage rate of IPTp in the study area is still below the global and national recommenda- tion, with over one half of women either failing to take IPTp at all or adhere to subsequent doses ...
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The acceptability of intermittent screening and treatment versus intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy: results from a qualitative study in Northern Ghana
... the intermittent malaria screening, trial participants generally expressed more positive sentiments towards IST- AL than ...anti-malarial treatment regimen during pregnancy, particularly in endemic areas ...
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Intermittent screening and treatment versus intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: user acceptability
... implementation of IPT in pregnancy in most settings is limited by social, cultural, economic and operational challenges despite good coverage of antenatal services [6,7]. In addition, resistance to SP has been spreading ...
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