Teaching Mothers to Provide Home Treatment of Malaria in Tigray, Ethiopia: A Randomised Trial
Language:
English
Series/Journal Title:
The Lancet
Volume:
356
Copyright:
2000
Pages:
pp. 550-555
Description:
No satisfactory strategy for reducing high child mortality from malaria has yet been established in tropical Africa. The authors compared the effect on under-5 mortality of teaching mothers to promptly provide antimalarials to their sick children at home, with the present community health worker approach. The study concludes that a major reduction in under-5 mortality can be achieved in holoendemic malaria areas through training local mother coordinators to teach mothers to give under-5 children antimalarial drugs. [adapted from abstract]
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Subject
Geographic Focus
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