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This study aims to evaluate the extent of chloroquine resistance in P. falciparum infection after the introduction of ACT.
Several studies have been conducted across Africa, following the introduction of ACT policy [3], [4], mostly evaluating implementation of the policy change at facility level, and specifically on the availability of drugs and the clinicians' prescribing habits.
Prior to the wide-scale introduction of ACT, a single dose of PQ following first line antimalarial treatment was recommended by the World Health Organisation to reduce malaria transmission in low endemic areas [1].
These ACT failures might be caused by high-level mefloquine resistance because mefloquine was used for monotherapy long before the introduction of ACT.
This approach to the introduction of ACT could impose substantial additional costs on households if they need to switch from widely practiced home-based management [ 18] to seeking treatment at a HCF to access the new drugs.
Because very little pharmacovigilance data or oversight is available in Africa [ 17], however, the introduction of ACT has been cautious and confined largely to prescription-only distribution in the formal sector.
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Therefore, in order to improve rational prescribing and tap the gains of the concurrent introduction of ACTs and RDTs, the overprescription of ACTs should be tackled by encouraging health workers to trust the RDT results and prescribe ACTs only to those with positive RDT results.
The introduction of ACTs in most African countries received considerable attention, with researchers evaluating the process of change and performance of health workers on new policies.
For MMH, the decrease in malaria admissions from 2003 through 2005 was consistent with introduction of ACTs as the first line of treatment for uncomplicated malaria and implementation of the test-and-treat campaign.
Our data and modeled estimates of cost presented in Table 1 and Table 2 under Current Practice represent a situation that prevailed before the introduction of ACTs in Kenya.
Analyses could also consider ways that political pressure and advocacy inform and influence decisions (this may have especially speeded up the introduction of ACTs), such as through key opinion leaders or the media.
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