Evaluation of severe malaria case management in Mazowe District, Zimbabwe, 2014
INTRODUCTION: malaria is a preventable and curable disease. Mazowe district had been experiencing a lower malaria transmission rate in comparison to other districts in the Mashonaland Central province but it experienced a huge outbreak in the 2013-2014 rainy seasons with a case fatality rate (CFR)...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pan African Medical Journal
2017-05-01
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| Series: | The Pan African Medical Journal |
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https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/27/33/pdf/33.pdf
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| Summary: | INTRODUCTION: malaria is a preventable and curable disease. Mazowe district had been experiencing a lower malaria transmission rate in comparison to other districts in the Mashonaland Central province but it experienced a huge outbreak in the 2013-2014 rainy seasons with a case fatality rate (CFR) of 0.21%. This CFR was the highest in the province and it was twice as much as the national CFR (0.12%) for the same period. We evaluated severe malaria case management in Mazowe district to determine if practice is as per standard treatment guidelines. |
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| ISSN: | 1937-8688 1937-8688 |