BackgroundThe antiretroviral drug nevirapine and the antimalarial artemisinin-based combination therapy artemether-lumefantrine are commonly co-administered to treat malaria in the context of HIV.
Liusheng Huang +12 more
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Background Pyronaridine–artesunate is a novel artemisinin-based combination therapy. The efficacy and safety of pyronaridine–artesunate were compared with artemether–lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in ...
Johanna M. Roth +8 more
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Chlorproguanil−Dapsone−Artesunate versus Artemether−Lumefantrine : a randomized, double-blind phase III trial in African children and adolescents with uncomplicated plasmodium falciparum malaria [PDF]
Chlorproguanil−dapsone−artesunate (CDA) was developed as an affordable, simple, fixed-dose artemisinin-based combination therapy for use in Africa. This trial was a randomized parallel-group, double-blind, double-dummy study to compare CDA and artemether−
Peter A Winstanley +73 more
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Supervised versus unsupervised antimalarial treatment with six-dose artemether-lumefantrine: pharmacokinetic and dosage-related findings from a clinical trial in Uganda. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: A six-dose antimalarial regimen of artemether-lumefantrine (A/L) may soon become one of the most widely used drug combination in Africa, despite possible constraints with adherence and poor absorption due to inadequate nutrition, and a lack ...
Bajunirwe, Francis +56 more
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INTRODUCTION: In Colombia, there are no published studies for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria comparing artemisinin combination therapies.
Fernando De la Hoz Restrepo +4 more
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Efficacy of Artemether-Lumefantrine in Treatment of Malaria Among Under-Fives and Prevalence of Drug Resistance Markers in Igombe-Mwanza, North-Western Tanzania. [PDF]
\ud \ud Drug resistance to anti-malarials is a major public health problem worldwide. This study aimed at establishing the efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine (ACT) in Igombe-Mwanza, north-western Tanzania after a few years of ACT use, and establish the ...
Kamugisha, Erasmus +20 more
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Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is recommended by the World Health Organization for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria. Currently, there appears to be a downward trend in the efficacy of ACT in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa because ...
Osamudiamen Ebohon +3 more
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Measurement of adherence, drug concentrations and the effectiveness of artemether-lumefantrine, chlorproguanil-dapsone or sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Malawi [PDF]
Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is the only single dose therapy for uncomplicated malaria, but there is widespread resistance. At the time of this study, artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and chlorproguanil-dapsone (CPD), both multi-dose regimes, were ...
Hughes Dyfrig A +37 more
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Introduction: The distribution of both malaria and schistosomiasis exhibits a large geographical overlap in tropical environments, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. This part of the world currently harbours more than 85% of the estimated global burden
Solomon M Abay +3 more
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Effectiveness of Artemether-Lumefantrine Provided by Community Health Workers in Under-five Children with Uncomplicated Malaria in Rural Tanzania: An Open Label Prospective Study. [PDF]
\ud Home-management of malaria (HMM) strategy improves early access of anti-malarial medicines to high-risk groups in remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
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