Intermittent Preventive Treatment

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
IPT
Pronunciation
/ˌɪntərˈmɪtənt prɪˈvɛnɪv ˈtritmənt/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Hospitals

Examples in Context

  1. All pregnant women to ensure they have access to intermittent preventive treatment.
  2. These results show us that intermittent preventive treatment in schools is a novel and effective means to address this problem.
  3. WHO recommends intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for pregnant women living in high transmission areas, during the second and third trimesters.
  4. To develop a decision-support tool to help policy-makers in sub-Saharan Africa assess whether intermittent preventive treatment in infants ( IPTi ) would be effective for local malaria control.
  5. Similarly, for infants living in high-transmission areas of Africa, 3 doses of intermittent preventive treatment with SP is recommended delivered alongside routine vaccinations.

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