| consumers stated and revealed preferences for community health workers and other strategies for the provision of timely and appropriate treatment of malaria in southeast nigeria. | the african heads of state meeting in abuja, nigeria on roll back malaria adopted effective treatment of malaria nearer the home as one of the strategies for malaria control in africa. a potentially effective strategy for bringing early, appropriate and low cost treatment of malaria closer to the home is through the use of community health workers (chws). there is paucity of information about people's actual preferences for chws and how stated preferences relates to revealed preferences for both ... | 2006 | 17140449 |
| randomized comparison of chloroquine and amodiaquine in the treatment of acute, uncomplicated, plasmodium falciparum malaria in children. | the increasing resistance of plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine (cq) has created an urgent need for the evaluation of alternative, effective, safe, cheap, readily available and affordable antimalarial treatments. in the present study, the efficacy of amodiaquine (aq) in the treatment of acute, symptomatic, uncomplicated, p. falciparum malaria was compared with that of cq, each drug being given at 10 mg/kg per day for 3 days (days 0, 1 and 2). the 210 subjects (104 given aq and 106 cq) were nig ... | 2001 | 11672461 |