Changing home treatment of childhood fevers by training shop keepers in rural Kenya
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 4 (5), 383-389
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00403.x
Abstract
Summary background Malaria control in Africa relies primarily on early effective treatment for clinical disease, but most early treatments for fever occur through self‐medication with shop‐bought dr...Keywords
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