Options for the delivery of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria to children: a community randomised trial.

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Published in PLoS One on September 30, 2009

Authors

Margaret Kweku1, Jayne Webster, Martin Adjuik, Samuel Abudey, Brian Greenwood, Daniel Chandramohan

Author Affiliations

1: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

Associated clinical trials:

Effectiveness of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for Malaria in Children | NCT00119132

Impact of Scaling up Mass Testing, Treatment and Tracking on Malaria Prevalence Among Children | NCT04167566

Determining the Impact of Scaling up Mass Testing, Treatment and Tracking on Malaria Prevalence in Ghana (DetI-MTTT) | NCT04301531

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