artemisinin based combination therapy policy
Priority setting for the implementation of artemisinin-based combination therapy policy in Tanzania: evaluation against the accountability for reasonableness framework
... to artemisinin-based combination therapies ...Treatment Policy in 2006, three choices of arte- misinin-based combination therapies recommended by the World Health Organisation ...
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Medicines dispensers’ knowledge on the implementation of an artemisinin-based combination therapy policy for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Tanzania
... As a result, the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders should urgently conduct training courses and seminars for private outlet dispensers in Tanzania to address key knowledge gaps in this high priority disease area. ...
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Efficacy of artesunate amodiaquine for the treatment of acute uncomplicated falciparum malaria in southern Mauritania
... Background: A regular evaluation of therapeutic efficacy in sentinel sites and a system of surveillance are required to establish treatment guidelines and adapt national anti-malarial drug policy to the rapidly ...
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Artemisinin-based combination therapy for treating uncomplicated malaria (Review)
... a combination of two drugs that act at dif- ferent biochemical sites within the parasite (WHO ...the artemisinin derivatives, and increasing the useful lifetime of the individual drugs (White 1996; White ...
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Adherence to artemisinin based combination therapy for the treatment of malaria: a systematic review of the evidence
... This review has several limitations. First, information on adherence to ACT is often a secondary outcome embed- ded into larger studies, and details on the measurement of adherence outcomes are often missing or not re- ...
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Therapeutic efficacy of artemether–lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria from three highly malarious states in India
... recommended artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for the management of uncomplicated malaria ...Drug Policy was revised in 2010 and since then AS + SP has become the first line ...
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Adherence to prescribed artemisinin based combination therapy in Garissa and Bunyala districts, Kenya
... this policy change was not implemented until the second part of 2006 when AL was distributed to government and mission public sector facilities, revised national standard treatment guidelines were changed and ...
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A new approach to gathering pharmaceutical market data to support policy implementation and access to medicines: as demonstrated by malaria medicines in Zambia
... of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for the treatment of malaria in 2006, then in 2010 a recom- mendation to confirm diagnosis using microscopy or rapid diagnostic tests ...average, ...
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Artemisinin based combination therapy for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Colombia
... In this study, there was a high therapeutic response to 30 mg/kg of AQ monotherapy (97.2%, 95% CI 85.8–99.9) after 28 days. Similarly, the addition of AS showed a high therapeutic efficacy (100%, 95%CI 89.1–100) with ...
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Artemisinin-based combination therapy for treating uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria
... The evidence from Papua New Guinea (where chloroquine re- sistance is common) is concerning in that treatment failures oc- curred before day 14, even with the best performing ACT (di- hydroartemisinin-piperaquine). This ...
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Malaria: Knowledge, Attitudes and Acceptances of Rapid Diagnostic Test amongst Primary Healthcare Workers in Some Selected Local Government Areas, Lagos State, Nigeria
... global policy recommendation due to the use of Artemisinin - based Combination Therapy (ACT), as the first line anti- malaria treatment for Plasmodium falciparum infection in most ...
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Efficacy of amodiaquine, sulphadoxine pyrimethamine and their combination for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children in Cameroon at the time of policy change to artemisinin based combination therapy
... Drugs were purchased from the National Central Phar- macy through the Cameroon Baptist Convention and were quality controlled by the analytical laboratory in Mutengene, Cameroon. Children in the groups who received ...
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From chloroquine to artemisinin based combination therapy: the Sudanese experience
... The NMCP worked simultaneously on many issues related to the implementation of the new treatment policy (Figure 2). The new guidelines were summarized as book- lets and wall charts, both in Arabic and in English, ...
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Anti malarial prescription practices among outpatients with laboratory confirmed malaria in the setting of a health facility based sentinel site surveillance system in Uganda
... mended artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falcip- arum malaria in countries with resistance to older mo- notherapies ...first-line ...
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Efficacy and safety of artemisinin based combination therapy and chloroquine with concomitant primaquine to treat Plasmodium vivax malaria in Brazil: an open label randomized clinical trial
... of artemisinin-based combination therapy regimens in this population offers the opportunity to treat all species of malaria with the same regimen, simplifying pro- tocols for malaria control ...
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Effect of artesunate mefloquine fixed dose combination in malaria transmission in amazon basin communities
... In 2000, malaria control programmes were decentra- lized to individual states of Brazil. In Acre state, as 90 % of total cases of malaria occur in the Juruá valley, a re- gional coordination body for malaria control was ...
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Brazilian Plasmodium falciparum isolates: investigation of candidate polymorphisms for artemisinin resistance before introduction of artemisinin based combination therapy
... Only isolates that were successfully amplified at all regions of a gene were considered. In this light, pfmdr1 polymorphisms were evaluable in 85 samples (19 for Paragominas, 33 for Porto Velho and 33 for Manaus ...
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Using an intervention mapping approach for planning, implementing and assessing a community led project towards malaria elimination in the Eastern Province of Rwanda
... theory- based intervention methods and practical applications (4) design of the programme, (5) adoption and imple- mentation plans, and (6) programme evaluation plans [10, ...community- based malaria ...
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Efficacies of DHA–PPQ and AS/SP in patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in an area of an unstable seasonal transmission in Sudan
... On the other hand, AS/SP has lost its effectiveness against falciparum malaria in Blue Nile region. Besides the single case ETF, 20% of the patients showed late para- sitological failure and four patients had gametocytes ...
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ANTI-MALARIAL TREATMENT: THEN; NOW AND FUTURE ASPECTS
... The last phase of the life cycle that has the potential to be targeted by a vaccine is the "sexual stage". This would not give any protective benefits to the individual inoculated but would prevent further ...
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