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Thursday, 30 January 2014
Limited success for malaria screening in schools
School-based intermittent screening and treatment programs for malaria may be unsuccessful in low to moderate transmission areasA school-based intermittent screening and treatment program for malaria in rural coastal Kenya had no benefits on the health and education of school children, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.The study, led by Katherine Halliday and Simon Brooker from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, included over 5000 children from 101 government schools.
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