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RESEARCH ARTICLE The Impact of a Community Awareness Strategy on Caregiver Treatment Seeking Behaviour and Use of Artemether- (1371)
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@MISC{Febrile71researcharticle,
author = {Lumefantrine Febrile and Children Rural and Beatrice Wasunna and Emelda A. Okiro and Jim Todd and Robert W. Snow and Caroline Jones},
title = {RESEARCH ARTICLE The Impact of a Community Awareness Strategy on Caregiver Treatment Seeking Behaviour and Use of Artemether-},
year = {1371}
}
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Abstract
Background Access to prompt and effective treatment is the cornerstone for malaria control. Population Services International in collaboration with the Ministry of Health launched a malaria behav-iour change communication intervention in Nyanza province, Kenya. The initiative aimed to improve: symptom recognition and prompt access to government health facilities for febrile children; effective treatment with the recommended first-line drug artemether-lumefantrine (AL) in public health facilities and adherence to the AL regimen. Methods Pre- and post-intervention cross-sectional household surveys were used to evaluate the impact of the intervention on prompt and correct use of AL for febrile children below five years of age. The primary outcome was the proportion of children below five years of age with fever in the last 14 days accessing AL within 48 hours of fever onset. Results There was an increase from 62.8 % pre-intervention to 79.4 % post-intervention (95 % CI:
