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Malaria incidence has increased two- to three-folds over the past four decades, and nearly half the world's population now lives in regions endemic for malaria: In Asia, Africa, and South America. A global annual estimate of 300-500 clinical cases of malaria and mortality in the range of 1-2 million
Study will be performed in public health facilities in up to 7 selected HDSS centres (Health and Demographic Surveillance sites) within the HDSS in Burkina Faso (1), Mozambique (1), Ghana (3), and Tanzania (2), where Eurartesim® will be used as first-line treatment of uncomplicated malaria
Methodology Children of either gender, between 6 months (> 5kg) and 10 years of age, with acute uncomplicated P. falciparum infection, who fulfil all of the inclusion and have none of exclusion criteria will be enrolled in the study. They will be randomised to receive the three trial arms, i.e,
Background Plasmodium falciparum causes malaria and approximately 665 000 deaths each year. Previously chloroquine (CQ) and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine were the principle drugs for the treatment of malaria. Due to widespread resistance to these drugs1, the World Health Organization recommends that P.
The emergence and spread of drug resistance are major problems in the control of malaria. Resistance to chloroquine in P. vivax was first detected in 1989 then spread to other parts of the world. In Indonesia, resistance of P. vivax to chloroquine has emerged in many parts of the country, ranging
Objectives
Primary Objective To determine the safety and tolerability of amodiaquine(AQ) (three days) plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine(SP) (one day), piperaquine(PQP) (three days) plus SP (one day), and Artekin TM (PQP plus dihydroartemisinin, DHA) (3 days) when used for seasonal IPT in
Primary objective:
To assess the level of resistance to artemisinin derivatives in Western Cambodia.
Secondary objective:
To assess the level of resistance to other antimalarial drugs in Western Cambodia
1. Background; There are worrying signs from Western Cambodia that parasitological responses to