Factors influencing the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis

• Main Authors: Eugene Kofuor Maafo Darteh (Author), Kwamena Sekyi Dickson (Author), Bright Opoku Ahinkorah (Author), Bernard Afriyie Owusu (Author), Joshua Okyere (Author), Tarif Salihu (Author), Vincent Bio Bediako (Author), Eugene Budu (Author), Wonder Agbemavi (Author), Jane Odurowaah Edjah (Author), Abdul-Aziz Seidu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) of malaria in pregnancy is a full therapeutic course of antimalarial sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) medicine given to pregnant women in their second trimester at routine antenatal care visits, regardless of whether the recipient is infected...