Health News from Medical News Today: Provision Of Subsidized Malaria Drugs In Shops Improves Uptake

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Provision Of Subsidized Malaria Drugs In Shops Improves Uptake 31 May 2011, 10:00 pm Reporting the findings of a cluster randomized trial carried out in rural Kenya, Beth Kangwana and colleagues find that provision of packs of the malaria therapy artemether-lumefantrine in shops at a subsidized price more than doubled the proportion of children with fever who received drugs promptly. Importantly, whilst enabling cheap and easy purchase of malaria treatment in shops enabled treatment of about 44% of children with fever, this is still much lower than the target of treating 80% of children with fever set by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.