Bottlenecks for high coverage of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy: the case of adolescent pregnancies in rural Burkina Faso.

BACKGROUND: While IPTp-SP is currently being scaled up in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the coverage with the required>or=2 doses of SP remains considerably short of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) goal of 80%, not to mention of the recently advocated universal coverage. METHODS: The study triangulates q...

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Main Authors: Koen Peeters Grietens, Sabine Gies, Sheick Oumar Coulibaly, Clotilde Ky, Judith Somda, Elizabeth Toomer, Joan Muela Ribera, Umberto D'Alessandro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2917368?pdf=render