Declines in Malaria Burden and All-Cause Child Mortality following Increases in Control Interventions in Senegal, 2005-2010.

In addition, in a low burden country and in the context of rapidly increasing use of diagnostic confirmation, very few febrile children who are tested test positive, and thus the indicator of proportion of children under five with fever in the past 2 weeks who received an antimalarial should be low and show a decreasing trend if providers are adhering to test results, making it difficult to ascertain the contribution of correct case management.

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