Home management of malaria.

摘要

Practising in rural west Africa, it becomes galling to see the Abuja target of treating 80% of malaria patients presented as if its goals are a stark contrast with the "percentage of febrile children given any form of malaria treatment".Have people forgotten that malarious areas are also overwhelmed by numerous other real causes of fever, including viruses, teething, otitis, urinary-tract infections, and pneumonia? Indeed most patients have these other causes of fever even during times of high malaria transmission.