Changes in health workers' malaria diagnosis and treatment practices in Kenya
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- 7 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Malaria Journal
- Vol. 10 (1) , 1
Abstract
Change of Kenyan treatment policy for uncomplicated malaria from sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to artemether-lumefantrine (AL) was accompanied by revised recommendations promoting presumptive malaria diagnosis in young children and, wherever possible, parasitological diagnosis and adherence to test results in older children and adults. Three years after the policy implementation, health workers' adherence to malaria diagnosis and treatment recommendations was evaluated.Keywords
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