Sustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural Gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers.
Mortality and morbidity from malaria were measured in children for a one-year period in a rural area of The Gambia 3-4 years after the introduction of a primary health care programme into some villages in the study area. Among children resident in primary health care villages who received treatment...
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| author | Menon, A Snow, R Byass, P Greenwood, B Hayes, R N'Jie, AB |
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| description | Mortality and morbidity from malaria were measured in children for a one-year period in a rural area of The Gambia 3-4 years after the introduction of a primary health care programme into some villages in the study area. Among children resident in primary health care villages who received treatment for febrile illnesses from a village health worker resident in their village there was no reduction in overall mortality or in morbidity from malaria compared with levels found in villages without a primary health care worker. However, among children aged 3-59 months who received malaria chemoprophylaxis from a village health worker in addition to treatment there was a 49% reduction in mortality and a 73% reduction in attacks of clinical malaria. The level of protection against malaria achieved by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers 3-4 years after the chemoprophylaxis programme was started was as high as that obtained shortly after the introduction of the primary health care programme. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b8e8bd07-637a-4912-9b44-6a61f7e512e02022-03-27T04:59:15ZSustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural Gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b8e8bd07-637a-4912-9b44-6a61f7e512e0EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford1990Menon, ASnow, RByass, PGreenwood, BHayes, RN'Jie, ABMortality and morbidity from malaria were measured in children for a one-year period in a rural area of The Gambia 3-4 years after the introduction of a primary health care programme into some villages in the study area. Among children resident in primary health care villages who received treatment for febrile illnesses from a village health worker resident in their village there was no reduction in overall mortality or in morbidity from malaria compared with levels found in villages without a primary health care worker. However, among children aged 3-59 months who received malaria chemoprophylaxis from a village health worker in addition to treatment there was a 49% reduction in mortality and a 73% reduction in attacks of clinical malaria. The level of protection against malaria achieved by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers 3-4 years after the chemoprophylaxis programme was started was as high as that obtained shortly after the introduction of the primary health care programme. |
| spellingShingle | Menon, A Snow, R Byass, P Greenwood, B Hayes, R N'Jie, AB Sustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural Gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers. |
| title | Sustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural Gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers. |
| title_full | Sustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural Gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers. |
| title_fullStr | Sustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural Gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural Gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers. |
| title_short | Sustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural Gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers. |
| title_sort | sustained protection against mortality and morbidity from malaria in rural gambian children by chemoprophylaxis given by village health workers |
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