Coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants after four years of implementation in Sierra Leone.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) is a malaria control strategy consisting of the administration of an anti-malarial drug alongside routine immunizations. So far, this is being implemented nationwide in Sierra Leone only. IPTi has been renamed as Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention -PMC-, accounting for its recently recommended expansion into the second year of life. Before starting a pilot implementation on PMC, the currently implemented strategy and malaria prevalence were assessed in young children in selected areas of Sierra Leone.

Methods

A cross-sectional, community-based, multi-stage cluster household survey was conducted from November to December 2021 in selected districts of the Northern and northwestern provinces of Sierra Leon

SUBMITTER: Fombah AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151216 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature