Assessment of community-level effects of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in schoolchildren in Jinja, Uganda (START-IPT trial): a cluster-randomised trial

• Asıl Yazarlar: Sarah G Staedke, ProfPhD (Yazar), Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, MSc (Yazar), Andrea M Rehman, PhD (Yazar), Simon P Kigozi, MSc (Yazar), Samuel Gonahasa, MBChB (Yazar), Jaffer Okiring, MSc (Yazar), Steve W Lindsay, ProfPhD (Yazar), Moses R Kamya, ProfPhD (Yazar), Clare I R Chandler, PhD (Yazar), Grant Dorsey, ProfPhD (Yazar), Chris Drakeley, ProfPhD (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Elsevier, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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Summary: Background: Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) is a well established malaria control intervention. Evidence that delivering IPT to schoolchildren could provide community-level benefits is limited. We did a cluster-randomised controlled trial to assess the effect of IPT of primary schoo...