- Abstract:
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A key bench mark of successful therapeutic policy implementation, and thus effectiveness, is that the recommended drugs are available at the point of care. Two years after artemether-lumefathrine (AL) was introduced for the management of uncomplicated malaria in Kenya, we carried out a cross-sectional survey to investigate AL availability in government facilities in seven malaria-endemic districts. One of four of the surveyed facilities had none of the four AL weight-specific treatment packs ...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
- Volume:
- 80
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 737-738
- Publication date:
- 2009-05-05
- EISSN:
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1476-1645
- ISSN:
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0002-9637
- URN:
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uuid:8bcfb852-4b78-4a3f-aefc-e7a340a0de19
- Source identifiers:
-
41211
- Local pid:
- pubs:41211
- Copyright date:
- 2009
Journal article
Malaria drug shortages in Kenya: a major failure to provide access to effective treatment.
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