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180 | Malaria<br />

to arrive. The revised protocol for the treatment <strong>of</strong> malaria can also explain the large difference<br />

between results obtained in the 2003 DHS on treatment <strong>of</strong> fever among children under age 5 with<br />

antimalarials <strong>and</strong> the <strong>2009</strong>-<strong>10</strong> TLDHS.<br />

Because <strong>of</strong> the need to treat malaria quickly, it can be useful for parents to have antimalarial<br />

drugs at home. The <strong>2009</strong>-<strong>10</strong> TLDHS findings show that antimalarial drugs were at home when the<br />

child became ill in about 46 percent <strong>of</strong> cases (data not shown).

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