Malaria care in infants aged under six months in Uganda: an area of unmet needs!

M.K. Mbonye; S.M. Burnett; S. Naikoba; Robert Colebunders; K. Wouters; M.R. Weaver; J.P. Van geertruyden

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Malaria care in infants aged under six months in Uganda: an area of unmet needs!

M.K. Mbonye, S.M. Burnett, S. Naikoba, Robert Colebunders, K. Wouters, M.R. Weaver, J.P. Van geertruyden

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BACKGROUND: Little information exists on malaria burden, artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) use, and malaria care provided to infants under six months of age. The perception that malaria may be rare in this age group has led to lack of clinical trials and evidence-based treatment guidelines. The objective of this study was to identify malaria parasitemia positivity rate (MPPR) among patients under six months, and practices and predictors of malaria diagnosis and treatment in this population. METHODS: Cross-sectional data collected from October 2010 to September 2011 on 25,997 individual outpatients aged

Original language	English
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	10
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	e0123283
Number of pages	20
ISSN	1932-6203
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123283
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Protozoal diseases
Malaria
Plasmodium falciparum
Vectors
Mosquitoes
Anopheles
Management
Diagnosis
Treatment
Practices
Predictors
Infants
Parasitemia
Prescription
Antimalarials
Uganda
Africa-East

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Malaria care in infants aged under six months in Uganda: an area of unmet needs!

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