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Coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants after four years of implementation in Sierra Leone

Fombah, augustin E; Chen, haily; Quinto, llorenç; Kyei, kwabena owusu; Gonzalez, raquel; Williams, julian; Berne, mireia lLach; Wassenaar, myrte; Jalloh, abubakarr; Sunders, joe-henry C; Ramirez, maximo; Cobo, cesc bertran; Saute, francisco; Ekouevi, didier K; Briand, valérie; Kamara, anitta R Y; Sesay, tom; Samai, mohamed; Menendez, clara.

Malar. j. (Online); 22 (145), 2023

Background: Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) is a malaria control strategy consisting of the administration of an anti-malarial drug alongside routine immunizations. So far, this is being implemented nationwide in Sierra Leone only. IPTi has been renamed as Perennial Malaria...

Malaria/prevention & control, Pyrimethamine/therapeutic use, Child Health, Sierra Leone/epidemiology, Africa, Western/epidemiology, Sulfadoxine/therapeutic use

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Strengthening equitable health systems in West Africa: The regional project on governance research for equity in health systems

Keita, Namoudou; Benjamin, Uzochukwu; Odette, Ky-Zerbo; Issiaka, Sombié; Virgil, Lokossou; Johnson, Ermel; Chinyere, Okeke; Godt, Sue.

African Journal of Reproductive Health; 26 (5), 2022

The West African Health Organization (WAHO) supported an innovative regional initiative that contributes to building effective decision making, community and researcher partnerships to strengthen equitable health systems and influence local programmes and policies. Four projects were funded in Nigeria, S...

Delivery of Health Care, Structures Strengthening, Equity in Access to Health Services, Health Governance, Regional Health Planning, Africa, Western

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The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the ECOWAS region

Somda, Serge M A; Bado, Aristide R; Sow, Abdourahmane; Lokossou, Virgil K; Ossei-AYeboah, Sybil; Ca, Tome; Ogbureke, Nanlop.

Ghana med. j; 56 (3 suppl), 2022

Objective: to analyse the pandemic after one year in terms of the evolution of morbidity and mortality and factors that may contribute to this evolution Design: This is a secondary analysis of data gathered to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of cases, incidence rate, cumulative incidence rat...

COVID-19, Pandemics, Mortality, Residence Characteristics, Vaccination, Africa, Western

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