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

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

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 scho...

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Main Authors: Sarah G Staedke, ProfPhD, Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, MSc, Andrea M Rehman, PhD, Simon P Kigozi, MSc, Samuel Gonahasa, MBChB, Jaffer Okiring, MSc, Steve W Lindsay, ProfPhD, Moses R Kamya, ProfPhD, Clare I R Chandler, PhD, Grant Dorsey, ProfPhD, Chris Drakeley, ProfPhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-06-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X18301268

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