Mariam Adam, Sami Nahzat, Qutbuddin Kakar, Methaq Assada, Benoit Witkowski, Azza Tag Eldin Elshafie, Duha Abuobaida, Naimullah Safi, Munir Ahmed Khan, Mustafa Nagi, Sayed Ali Mustafa, Khalilahmad Kohestani, Jamil Muhammad, Nimol Khim, Mohammed Al-Hadi, Tarig Mohamed Elfaki, Muhammad Naeem Habib, Amna Khairy Abulkareem Khairy, Hamida Hamid, Zain Uddin, Yahya Amer, Abdikarim Hussein Hassan, Mousab Siddig Elhag, Ahmad Walid Sediqi, Inamullah Kakar, Rashad Abdul-Ghani, Jamal Ghilan Hefzullah Amran, Tarig Abdalla Abdallrahim, Mohammad Shoaib Tamim, Adel Aljasari, Charlotte Rasmussen, Lina Azkoul, Marian Warsame
INTRODUCTION: The World Health Organization recommends regular monitoring of the efficacy of nationally recommended antimalarial drugs. We present the results of studies on the efficacy of recommended antimalarials and molecular markers of artemisinin and partner resistance in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. METHODS: Single-arm prospective studies were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (ASSP) in Afghanistan and Pakistan, artemether-lumefantrine (AL) in all countries, or dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) in Sudan for the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum...
September 13, 2023: Tropical Medicine & International Health