Objectives
Discuss meaning of intermittent preventive therapy and intermittent diseases
Description
intermittent diseases are thoos diseaseswhich recure at certain periods so tbis lecture focus on intermittent diseases and how to use intermittent preventive therapy, Intermittent preventive therapy or intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) is a public health intervention aimed at treating and preventing malaria episodes in infants (IPTi), children (IPTc), schoolchildren (IPTsc) and pregnant women (IPTp).