Abstract
Adherence to artemether-lumefantrine drug combination: a rural community experience six years after change of malaria treatment policy in Tanzania
Highlights
Patients treated with ALu were visited at home on day 3 for interview on drug intake, capillary blood sample collection for microscopy and ALu tablets count
Venous blood samples (2 ml) for determination of blood lumefantrine concentrations and blood slides for microscopy were collected on day 7
Only 14.9% of the patients were definite adherent, the rest took the drug at incorrect time or did not finish the tablets
Summary
Adherence to artemether-lumefantrine drug combination: a rural community experience six years after change of malaria treatment policy in Tanzania From Challanges in malaria research: Core science and innovation Oxford, UK. Background Adherence to multidosing is challenging worldwide. This study assessed the extent of adherence to multidosing artemether-lumefantrine (ALu) in a rural community in Tanzania, six years after switching from single dose policy of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine.
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