Determinants of the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with sulphadoxine pyrimethamine in Sabatia Sub County, Western Kenya

Determinants of the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with sulphadoxine pyrimethamine in Sabatia Sub County, Western Kenya

Abstract Background Annually, 125.2 million pregnant women worldwide risk contracting malaria, including 30.3 million and 1.5 million in Sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya respectively. At least three doses of sulphadoxine pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp-S...

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Main Authors: Joshua A. Mutanyi, Daniel O. Onguru, Sidney O. Ogolla, Lawrence B. Adipo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-08-01
Series:Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Subjects:
Malaria
Pregnancy
Intermittent preventive treatment
Sulphadoxine pyrimethamine
Sabatia
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-021-00887-4

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-021-00887-4

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