Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine on essential drugs list for preventing malaria in pregnancy
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USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts influences the Government of Uganda, via the Ministry of Health, to take important steps in improving provision of SP (sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine) – an essential drug needed for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy...
USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts influences the Government of Uganda, via the Ministry of Health, to take important steps in improving provision of SP (sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine) – an essential drug needed for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy.
This not only improves the health status of vulnerable groups (pregnant women and their fetuses/neonates) but demonstrates Uganda’s support of malaria control.