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Socio-cultural factors explaining timely and appropriate use of health facilities for degedege in south-eastern Tanzania.

Dillip A, Hetzel MW, Gosoniu D, Kessy F, Lengeler C, Mayumana I, Mshana C, Mshinda H, Schulze A, Makemba A, Pfeiffer C, Weiss MG, Obrist B.

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Role of traditional healers in the management of severe malaria among children below five years of age: the case of Kilosa and Handeni Districts, Tanzania.

Makundi EA, Malebo HM, Mhame P, Kitua AY, Warsame M.

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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.

Kaona FA, Tuba M.

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Two treatments, one disease: childhood malaria management in Tanga, Tanzania.

Foster D, Vilendrer S.

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Treatment practices for degedege, a locally recognized febrile illness, and implications for strategies to decrease mortality from severe malaria in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania.

Makemba AM, Winch PJ, Makame VM, Mehl GL, Premji Z, Minjas JN, Shiff CJ.

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Care-seeking patterns for fatal malaria in Tanzania.

de Savigny D, Mayombana C, Mwageni E, Masanja H, Minhaj A, Mkilindi Y, Mbuya C, Kasale H, Reid G.

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Obstacles to prompt and effective malaria treatment lead to low community-coverage in two rural districts of Tanzania.

Hetzel MW, Obrist B, Lengeler C, Msechu JJ, Nathan R, Dillip A, Makemba AM, Mshana C, Schulze A, Mshinda H.

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Maternal responses to childhood febrile illnesses in an area of seasonal malaria transmission in rural Ethiopia.

Deressa W, Ali A, Berhane Y.

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Malaria risk and access to prevention and treatment in the paddies of the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania.

Hetzel MW, Alba S, Fankhauser M, Mayumana I, Lengeler C, Obrist B, Nathan R, Makemba AM, Mshana C, Schulze A, Mshinda H.

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Health seeking behavior by families of children suspected to have malaria in Kabale: Uganda.

Tumwesigire S, Watson S.

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Treatment-seeking behaviour for febrile illness in an area of seasonal malaria transmission in rural Ethiopia.

Deressa W.

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"I thought it was only ordinary fever!" cultural knowledge and the micropolitics of therapy seeking for childhood febrile illness in Tanzania.

Kamat VR.

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Beiersmann C, Sanou A, Wladarsch E, De Allegri M, Kouyaté B, Müller O.

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Caretakers' perceptions of clinical manifestations of childhood malaria in holo-endemic rural communities in Tanzania.

Tarimo DS, Urassa DP, Msamanga GI.

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Caretaker's perceptions, attitudes and practices regarding childhood febrile illness and diarrhoeal diseases among riparian communities of Lake Victoria, Tanzania.

Kaatano GM, Muro AI, Medard M.

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Socio-cultural predictors of health-seeking behaviour for febrile under-five children in Mwanza-Neno district, Malawi.

Chibwana AI, Mathanga DP, Chinkhumba J, Campbell CH Jr.

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Treatment-seeking behaviour for malaria in children under five years of age: implication for home management in rural areas with high seasonal transmission in Sudan.

Malik EM, Hanafi K, Ali SH, Ahmed ES, Mohamed KA.

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Assessing prescribing and patient care indicators for children under five years old with malaria and other disease conditions in public primary health care facilities.

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Utilization of public or private health care providers by febrile children after user fee removal in Uganda.

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Dying under the bird's shadow: narrative representations of degedege and child survival among the Zaramo of Tanzania.

Kamat VR.

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