Abstract:Background: Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy (IPTp) is a comprehensive treatment protocol of antimalarial drugs administered to pregnant women to prevent Malaria, started at the fourth pregnancy month, with at least three doses of Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), taken as directly observed treatment (DOT) every 30 days as interval until childbirth, in combination with other preventive measures. This paper introduces feasibility and adoption concepts as implementation research outcomes (… Show more
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