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The efficacy of antimalarial monotherapies, sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine in East Africa: implications for sub-regional policy.
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Between 1998 and 2001, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Rwanda and Burundi changed antimalarial drug policy, in the face of widespread chloroquine resistance. The new first-line treatment is either sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) monotherapy, or a combination of SP with either chloroquine or amodiaquine. Two national malaria control programmes, Burundi and Zanzibar, have decided upon amodiaquine-artesunate as their first-line treatment, although SP will continue to fill this role until the ...
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- 10.1046/j.1360-2276.2003.01114.x
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- Journal:
- Tropical medicine and international health : TM and IH
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- 860-867
- Publication date:
- 2003-10-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1365-3156
- ISSN:
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1360-2276
- Source identifiers:
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38750
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- English
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pubs:38750
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uuid:63e28e64-167a-4394-9711-8b32f44c3a90
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- pubs:38750
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