School attendance and clinical malaria monitoring
malaria, fever
MALARIA
During scheduled study visits, all children with symptoms (fever) were screened for malaria, regardless of study arm. If a participant missed school on the day of follow-up visit, the study team would conduct a home visit for the participant. In addition, two CHWs were assigned to each school selected for evaluation of IPTsc effectiveness; these were trained to diagnose and treat uncomplicated malaria using the standard guidelines. During follow up, if an enrolled child was absent, school health teachers were encouraged to contact the CHWs in their respective villages, who would then pay a home visit seeking reasons for the absenteeism. The information would be logged on a special attendance monitoring form (Additional file To avoid duplicate information, all referred cases were given a special referral form (Additional file 