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

• Main Authors: Sarah G Staedke, ProfPhD (Author), Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, MSc (Author), Andrea M Rehman, PhD (Author), Simon P Kigozi, MSc (Author), Samuel Gonahasa, MBChB (Author), Jaffer Okiring, MSc (Author), Steve W Lindsay, ProfPhD (Author), Moses R Kamya, ProfPhD (Author), Clare I R Chandler, PhD (Author), Grant Dorsey, ProfPhD (Author), Chris Drakeley, ProfPhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...