Combining community case management and intermittent preventive treatment for malaria |
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| Authors: | Greenwood Brian Bojang Kalifa Tagbor Harry Pagnoni Franco |
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| Institution: | 1Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK;2Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit, Banjul, The Gambia;3Department of Community Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana;4United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)/ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/World Bank/World Health Organization (WHO) Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Employment of members of the community to treat malaria is a promising approach to the management of this infection in areas where access to treatment is difficult. Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) of malaria has recently been shown to be a highly effective way of reducing morbidity from malaria in children living in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, and it can be delivered efficiently by community volunteers. Therefore, we suggest that in areas where malaria transmission is seasonal, and IPT an appropriate malaria intervention in children, community volunteers could be employed to deliver IPT during the peak malaria-transmission season and also to provide community case management during this period and during the rest of the year when occasional cases of malaria continue to occur. |
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