The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) of the Federal Ministry of Health says Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have been recommended for treatments of malaria in Nigeria.
The Programme Officer, NMEP, Wudi Tanko, disclosed this in her presentation at a news conference on Friday in Abuja.
The presentation was titled: “Effective malaria case management, appropriate use of Malaria medicines.”
She listed Artemether-Lumefantrine (AL), Artesunate–Amodiaquine (AA), Dihydroartemisinine–Piperaquine (DHP) and Artesunate-Pyronaridine (PA), as medicines of choice for uncomplicated malaria treatment.
Ms Tanko explained that the medicines came in different dose combinations with the aim of promptly curing the disease and preventing progression.
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