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Malaria Therapy
Researchers from University of Zambia, Department of Community Medicine report on findings in malaria therapy
March 15th, 2008
Scientists discuss in 'From chloroquine to artemether-lumefantrine: the process of drug policy change in Zambia' new findings in malaria. "Following the recognition that morbidity and mortality due to malaria had dramatically increased in the last three decades, in 2002 the government of Zambia reviewed its efforts to prevent and treat malaria. Convincing evidence of the failing efficacy of chloroquine resulted in the initiation of a process that eventually led to the development and implementation of a new national drug policy based on artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT)," scientists in Lusaka, Zambia report. "All published and unpublished documented evidence...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-03-15)
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