Malaria morbidity in children in the year after they had received intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in Mali: a randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children (IPTc) is a promising strategy for malaria control. A study conducted in Mali in 2008 showed that administration of three courses of IPTc with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and amodiaquine (AQ) at monthly intervals reduced clinical malaria, severe malaria and malaria infection by >80% in children under 5 years of age. Here we report the results of a follow-on study undertaken to establish whether children who had received IPTc would be at increased risk of malaria during the subsequent malaria transmission season.

Methods

Morbidity from malaria and the prevalence of malaria parasitaemia and anaemia were measured in children who had previously received IPTc with SP and AQ using similar surveillance methods

SUBMITTER: Dicko A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3155530 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature