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Impact of improving community-based access to malaria diagnosis and treatment on household costs
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Background: Community health workers (CHWs) were trained in Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Uganda to diagnose febrile children using malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), treat positive malaria cases with artemisinin combination treatment (ACTs) and those who could not take oral medicines with rectal artesunate. We quantified the impact of this intervention on private household costs for childhood febrile illness. Methods: Households with recent febrile illness i... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/cid/ciw623
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Funding
+ Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
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Grant:
UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/World Health Organization
+ World Health
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Ug
ProjectIDnumber:BurkinaFaso:A80553,Nigeria:
A80550
a:A80556
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 63
- Issue:
- S5
- Pages:
- S256-S263
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-09-06
- DOI:
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1537-6591
- ISSN:
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1058-4838
- Source identifiers:
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645939
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- World Health Organization
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- Copyright © 2016 World Health Organization; licensee Oxford Journals.. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organisation or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
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