Malaria Treatment
MALARIA TREATMENT VS. MALARIA PROPHYLAXIS : A COST COMPARISON.
... acquired malaria, which occurred during the sixth month of the ...other malaria symptoms such as fever and ...falciparum malaria (SFM). The malaria case was treated according to Malaria ...
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A qualitative study on health workers’ and community members’ perceived sources, role of information and communication on malaria treatment, prevention and control in southeast Nigeria
... receive malaria treatment (in order to understand their current health seeking situation); their knowledge of how to handle childhood malaria (because of the vulnerability of chil- dren); different ...
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Prescription practices for malaria in Mozambique: poor adherence to the national protocols for malaria treatment in 22 public health facilities
... for malaria treatment is poor and the disease is largely treated ...where malaria is endemic [10, 13, ...were malaria negative [16] and another study conducted in Malawi found that ACT was ...
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The end of a dogma: the safety of doxycycline use in young children for malaria treatment
... for malaria chemo- prophylaxis for travel in endemic areas, or in combination with the use of quinine for malaria treatment when ACT is unavailable or when the treatment of severe ...
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Treatment of malaria from monotherapy to artemisinin based combination therapy by health professionals in urban health facilities in Yaoundé, central province, Cameroon
... The present study highlighted problems related to the implementation of ACT in Cameroon, including the lack of protocol guidelines and in-service training related to malaria treatment, as previously ...
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Rapid diagnostic tests failing to detect Plasmodium falciparum infections in Eritrea: an investigation of reported false negative RDT results
... in malaria risk areas [1]. Though, malaria was one of the main public health problems in the country, intensive control interven- tions over the years, have resulted in marked decline in malaria ...
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Malaria prevalence, knowledge, perception, preventive and treatment behavior among military in Champasak and Attapeu provinces, Lao PDR: a mixed methods study
... for malaria treatment in remote communities ...timely malaria treatment ...in malaria con- trol such as the lack of health information particularly about the causes and transmission ...
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Qualitative study of presumptive treatment of childhood malaria in third tier tertiary hospitals in southeast Nigeria: a focus group and in depth study
... presumptive treatment of ...that malaria has many non-specific symptoms, which can also be manifested by other disease ...of malaria, as well as other illnesses that can present like ...of ...
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Health service providers in Somalia: their readiness to provide malaria case management
... uncomplicated malaria has been almost universal across Africa ...standard treatment guidelines and drug procurement and distribution to the periphery of the health sector ...national malaria ...
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Promoting community knowledge and action for malaria control in rural Cambodia: potential contributions of Village Malaria Workers
... This study had three main limitations. First, it used self-reported data, which are susceptible to reporting bias. However, attempts were made to minimize this po- tential bias by pre-testing the questionnaire, training ...
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Tetracyclines in malaria
... potential malaria therapeutics available to ...for malaria treatment and ...treat malaria, and it has been proven to be effective and ...Keywords: Malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, ...
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Caregivers’ perception of malaria and treatment seeking behaviour for under five children in Mandura District, West Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
... perceived treatment benefits, perceived bar- riers to treatment, cue to action and ...of malaria. Perceived benefits of malaria treatment, perceived barriers to treat- ment-seeking and ...
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IJCSMC, Vol. 4, Issue. 5, May 2015, pg.1087 – 1093 REVIEW ARTICLE A Review of Predictive Models on Diagnosis and Treatment of Malaria Fever
... for malaria diagnosis, motivations for this study are: insufficiency of medical specialist, which has increased the mortality of patients who suffer from malaria and the need to use computer technology to ...
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Malaria testing and treatment knowledge among selected rural patent and proprietary medicine vendors (PPMV) in Nigeria
... diagnose malaria and provide appropriate treat- ment with artemisinin-based ...quality malaria testing and treatment and improve health service provi- sion among PPMVs in line with government ...
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Acquired resistance of malarial parasites against artemisinin-based drugs: social and economic impacts
... Abstract: Malaria, a disease of poverty and high morbidity and mortality in the tropical world, has led to a worldwide search for control ...sight. Malaria endemic areas which are mostly in developing ...
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Exploring the role of socioeconomic factors in the development and spread of anti malarial drug resistance: a qualitative study
... The thematic analysis method, as outlined by Braun and Clarke [37] was used in analysing the interview data. This involved firstly, a comprehensive reading and re- reading of all the data set (transcript). In the second ...
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Accuracy of a Plasmodium falciparum specific histidine rich protein 2 rapid diagnostic test in the context of the presence of non malaria fevers, prior anti malarial use and seasonal malaria transmission
... a malaria infection in a febrile child before commencing treatment, malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have become indispensable in the screening of malaria-suspected fever cases ...
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Adjunctive therapy for severe malaria: a review and critical appraisal
... severe malaria treatment The host immune response plays a central role in the onset, severity and outcome of malaria infections and this has promoted the search for immunomodulatory adjunctive ...
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Medicines dispensers’ knowledge on the implementation of an artemisinin-based combination therapy policy for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Tanzania
... of treatment for IPTp ...uncomplicated malaria, instead of reserving it for IPTp, may lead to SP resistant (Table 3), which in turn will compromise its future ...for malaria treatment because ...
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Foul wind, spirits and witchcraft: illness conceptions and health seeking behaviour for malaria in the Gambia
... correct treatment depends on the correct diagnosis by a mara- ...severe malaria may not consult a biomedical health practitioner because he/she believes that a spiritual blockage inflicted by a Jinne or ...
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