Journal article
The effect of an anti-malarial subsidy programme on the quality of service provision of artemisinin-based combination therapy in Kenya: a cluster-randomized, controlled trial.
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BACKGROUND: Many patients with suspected malaria in sub-Saharan Africa seek treatment from private providers, but this sector suffers from sub-standard medicine dispensing practices. To improve the quality of care received for presumptive malaria from the highly accessed private retail sector in western Kenya, subsidized pre-packaged artemether-lumefantrine (AL) was provided to private retailers, together with a one day training for retail staff on malaria diagnosis and treatment, job aids an...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
Department for International Development
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Wellcome Trust
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United States Agency for International Development
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Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malar J Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 81
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1475-2875
- ISSN:
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1475-2875
- Source identifiers:
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387866
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:387866
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Kangwana et al
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 Kangwana et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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