Knowledge, attitudes and practices on malaria in relation to its transmission among primary school children in Bagamoyo district, Tanzania
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P.O. Box 447, Arusha, Tanzania. 2 Ifakara Health Institute, P.O. Box 78373, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 3 Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, P. O. Box 2958, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 4 National Institute for Medical Research, Amani Medical Research Centre, P.O. Box 81, Muheza, Tanga, Tanzania. 5 Genome Science Centre and Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, Sokoine University of Agriculture,
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Treatment practices for degedege, a locally recognized febrile illness, and implications for strategies to decrease mortality from severe malaria in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania.
Malaria remains one of the chief causes of mortality among young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Verbal autopsies for cases of childhood mortality in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania demonstrated that degedege, a locally defined illness of children characterized by fever and convulsions, is frequently treated by traditional healers. To investigate this further, an ethnographic study was carried out ...
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