Can malaria be controlled where basic health services are not used?
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Can malaria be controlled where basic health services are not used?
OBJECTIVE To assess the potential of integrating malaria control interventions in underused health services. METHODS Using the Piot predictive model, we estimated malaria cure rates by deriving parameters influencing treatment at home and in health facilities from the best-performing African malaria programmes and applying them to Yanfolila district, Mali. RESULTS Without any malaria contro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine and International Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1360-2276,1365-3156
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01576.x