Prevention of malaria during pregnancy: assessing the effect of the distribution of IPTp through the national policy in Benin.

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Published in Am J Trop Med Hyg on February 01, 2011

Authors

Agnès Le Port1, Gilles Cottrell, Célia Dechavanne, Valérie Briand, Aziz Bouraima, José Guerra, Isabelle Choudat, Achille Massougbodji, Benjamin Fayomi, Florence Migot-Nabias, André Garcia, Michel Cot

Author Affiliations

1: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR216, Mère et Enfant Face aux Infections Tropicales, Paris, France. agnesleport@yahoo.fr

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