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For children with fever, the proportion taken for treatment across Africa, Asia and Latin America has increased significantly in the last 30 years from 61% to 71%, but “significant gaps” in access to healthcare remain

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For children with fever, the proportion taken for treatment across Africa, Asia and Latin America has increased significantly in the last 30 years from 61% to 71%, but “significant gaps” in access to healthcare remain. 

For children with fever, the proportion taken for treatment across Africa, Asia and Latin America has increased significantly in the last 30 years from 61% to 71%, but"significant gaps" in access to healthcare remain

Credit: Nguyen et al., 2023, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

For children with fever, the proportion taken for treatment across Africa, Asia and Latin America has increased significantly in the last 30 years from 61% to 71%, but “significant gaps” in access to healthcare remain. 

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0002134

Article Title: Trends in treatment-seeking for fever in children under five years old in 151 countries from 1990 to 2020

Author Countries: Australia, Denmark, Singapore, UK, USA

Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [grant number: INV-009390 / OPP1197730]. The funders of the study had no role in the analysis, or interpretation of the data, the presentation, review, or approval of the manuscript, or the decision to submit for publications. This work was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. PAD, PECWC, SFR, JAR, JRH, CAVR, EC, DJW, and PWG were supported by [INV-009390 / OPP1197730], MN, KAT, DB, SB, and KEB by [OPP1152978], and HSG by [OPP1106023]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. KEB is an employee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); however, this study was designed while she was at the Malaria Atlas Project as an employee of the University of Oxford. All analyses presented were conducted by the Malaria Atlas Project, and the findings do not necessarily represent the views of the BMGF. SB acknowledges support from the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis (MR/R015600/1), jointly funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), under the MRC/FCDO Concordat agreement, and also part of the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union. SB is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling and Health Economics, a partnership between the UK Health Security Agency, Imperial College London and LSHTM (grant code NIHR200908). Disclaimer: “The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR, UK Health Security Agency or the Department of Health and Social Care.” S.B. acknowledges support from the Novo Nordisk Foundation via The Novo Nordisk Young Investigator Award (NNF20OC0059309). SB acknowledges support from the Danish National Research Foundation via a chair grant. S.B. acknowledges support from The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund For Strategic Innovation via the Schmidt Polymath Award (G-22-63345). PWG was additionally supported through funding provided jointly by Curtin University, the Telethon Trust and the Telethon Kids Institute under project ID RES-61992.



Journal

PLOS Global Public Health

DOI

10.1371/journal.pgph.0002134

Article Title

Trends in treatment-seeking for fever in children under five years old in 151 countries from 1990 to 2020

Article Publication Date

23-Aug-2023

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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