Early treatment of childhood fevers with pre‐packaged antimalarial drugs in the home reduces severe malaria morbidity in Burkina Faso
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- 11 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 8 (2), 133-139
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.00997.x
Abstract
In rural, malaria‐endemic Burkina Faso, we evaluated the impact of the use of pre‐packaged antimalarial drugs (PPAM), by mothers in the home, on the progression of disease in children from uncomplica...Keywords
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