Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants: a decision-support tool for sub-Saharan Africa

• Main Authors: Ilona Carneiro (Author), Lucy Smith (Author), Amanda Ross (Author), Arantxa Roca-Feltrer (Author), Brian Greenwood (Author), Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg (Author), Thomas Smith (Author), David Schellenberg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To develop a decision-support tool to help policy-makers in sub-Saharan Africa assess whether intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) would be effective for local malaria control. METHODS: An algorithm for predicting the effect of IPTi was developed using two approaches. First...