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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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