A trial of intermittent preventive treatment and home-based management of malaria in a rural area of The Gambia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individual malaria interventions provide only partial protection in most epidemiological situations. Thus, there is a need to investigate whether combining interventions provides added benefit in reducing mortality and morbidity from malaria. The potential benefits of combining IPT in children (IPTc) with home management of malaria (HMM) was investigated.

Methods

During the 2008 malaria transmission season, 1,277 children under five years of age resident in villages within the rural Farafenni demographic surveillance system (DSS) in North Bank Region, The Gambia were randomized to receive monthly IPTc with a single dose of sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine (SP) plus three doses of amodiaquine (AQ) or SP and AQ placebos given by village health workers (VHWs) on three occa

SUBMITTER: Sesay S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3024263 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature