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Intermittent Preventive Treatment Gives Additional Protection Even To Children Sleeping Under Bed Nets

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NAIROBI, KENYA: Diadier Diallo of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, co-ordinator of a trial of intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) for children in Burkina Faso and Mali, told Peter Goodwin about the success of his group’s study using full dose malaria treatment among children for prophylaxis, as reported at the 5th MIM Pan African Malaria Conference, Nairobi.