Changing the policy for intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine during pregnancy in Malawi

BACKGROUND: The growing resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (SP) treatment for uncomplicated malaria led to a recommendation by the World Health Organization for the use of artemisinin-based combination therapy. Inevitably, concerns were also raised surrounding the use o...

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Published in:Malar J
Main Authors: Mwendera, Chikondi A., de Jager, Christiaan, Longwe, Herbert, Phiri, Kamija, Hongoro, Charles, Mutero, Clifford M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Study
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319082/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28219435
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-1736-9
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