The challenges of changing national malaria drug policy to artemisinin-based combinations in Kenya

The challenges of changing national malaria drug policy to artemisinin-based combinations in Kenya

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Backgound: Sulphadoxine/sulphalene-pyrimethamine (SP) was adopted in Kenya as first line therapeutic for uncomplicated malaria in 1998. By the second half of 2003, there was convincing evidence that SP was failing and had to be replaced. Despite several descriptive investigations of policy change an...

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Main Authors:	Amin, A, Zurovac, D, Kangwana, B, Greeenfield, J, Otieno, D, Akhwale, W, Snow, R
Format:	Journal article
Language:	English
Published:	BioMed Central 2007
Subjects:	Malaria Tropical medicine Infectious diseases

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