Shifting from Presumptive to Test-Based Management of Malaria - Technical Basis and Implications for Malaria Control in Ghana
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Shifting from presumptive to test-based management of malaria - technical basis and implications for malaria control in Ghana.
The presumptive approach was the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended to the management of malaria for many years and this was incorporated into syndromic guidelines such as the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI). In early 2010 however, WHO issued revised treatment guidelines that call for a shift from the presumptive to the test-based approach. Practically, this implies...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ghana Medical Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0855-0328
DOI: 10.4314/gmj.v48i2.10