a qualitative study to identify community structures for management of severe malaria a basis for introducing rectal artesunate in the under five years children in nakonde district of zambia定性研究来确定社区结构管理严重的疟疾的基础介绍直肠青蒿琥酯nakonde地区五岁以下儿童的赞比亚.pdfVIP

BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access A qualitative study to identify community structures for management of severe malaria: a basis for introducing rectal artesunate in the under five years children in Nakonde District of Zambia Frederick AD Kaona* and Mary Tuba Address: Directorate and Department of Behavioural Sciences, Mwengu Social and Health Research Centre, 12 Kafupi Road, Plot Number 1410/ 130 Northrise, P O Box 73693, Ndola, Zambia Email: Frederick AD Kaona* - fadkaona@zamnet.zm; Mary Tuba - mary_tuba2004@yahoo.co.uk * Corresponding author Published: 25 March 2005 Received: 26 May 2004 Accepted: 25 March 2005 BMC Public Health 2005, 5:28 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-5-28 This article is available from: /1471-2458/5/28 © 2005 Kaona and Tuba; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Malaria is a serious illness among children aged 5 years and below in Zambia, which carries with it many adverse effects including anemia and high parasites exposure that lead to infant and childhood mortality. Due to poor accessibility to modern health facilities, malaria is normally managed at home using indigenous and cosmopolitan medicines. In view of problems and implications associated with management of severe malaria at home, rectal artesunate is being proposed as a first aid drug to slow down multiplication of parasites in children before acces