Feasibility, acceptability and impact of integrating malaria rapid diagnostic tests and pre-referral rectal artesunate into the integrated community case management programme. A pilot study in Mchinji district, Malawi

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends that persons of all ages suspected of malaria should receive a parasitological confirmation of malaria by use of malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) at community level, and that rectal artesunate should be used as a pre-referral treatment for seve...

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Published in:Malar J
Main Authors: Phiri, Themba B., Kaunda-Khangamwa, Blessings N., Bauleni, Andrew, Chimuna, Tiyese, Melody, David, Kalengamaliro, Humphreys, Sande, John H., Nsona, Humphreys Kampira, Mathanga, Don P.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802711/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27000034
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1237-2
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