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Community-based Malaria Screening and Treatment for Pregnant Women Receiving Standard Intermittent Preventive Treatment With Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine: A Multicenter (The Gambia, Burkina Faso, and Benin) Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial
Author(s) -
Susana Scott,
Umberto D’Alessandro,
Lindsay Kendall,
John Bradley,
Kalifa Bojang,
Simon Correa,
Fanta Njie,
Halidou Tinto,
Maminata Traoré-Coulibaly,
Hamtandi Magloire Natama,
Ousmane Traoré,
Innocent Valéa,
Alain Nahum,
Daniel Ahounou,
Francis Bohissou,
Gethaime Sondjo,
Carine Agbowaï,
Pètra F. Mens,
Esmée Ruizendaal,
Henk D. F. H. Schallig,
Susan Dierickx,
Koen Peeters Grietens,
Laetitia Duval,
Lesong Conteh,
Maxime Drabo,
Jamie Guth,
Franco Pagi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciy522
Subject(s) - medicine , malaria , sulfadoxine , sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine , pregnancy , low birth weight , obstetrics , randomized controlled trial , anemia , population , artemether/lumefantrine , pediatrics , gynecology , plasmodium falciparum , pyrimethamine , environmental health , immunology , artemisinin , biology , genetics
We investigated whether adding community scheduled malaria screening and treatment (CSST) with artemether-lumefantrine by community health workers (CHWs) to standard intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) would improve maternal and infant health.

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