Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants: a decision-support tool for sub-Saharan Africa

OBJECTIVE: To develop a decision-support tool to help policy-makers in sub-Saharan Africa assess whether intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) would be effective for local malaria control. METHODS: An algorithm for predicting the effect of IPTi was developed using two approaches. First...

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Main Authors: Ilona Carneiro, Lucy Smith, Amanda Ross, Arantxa Roca-Feltrer, Brian Greenwood, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Thomas Smith, David Schellenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010001100009&lng=en&tlng=en