Quality assessment of common anti-malarial medicines marketed in Gambella, National Regional State, South Western-Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over the past years, there has been a growing concern that a considerable amount of anti-malarial supply in the underdeveloped world particularly in the private sector, is of poor quality. The World Health Organization (WHO) has received about 1500 reports that mentions instances of substandard and falsified products since 2013. The majority of the reports concerned antibiotics and anti-malarials. The majority of reports (42%) originate from the WHO African region.

Objective

This study intends to assess the quality of the most widely used anti-malarial medications [artemether-lumefantrine tablets, chloroquine phosphate tablets, primaquine phosphate tablets, artesunate, and artemether injections] in Gambella, South-West, Ethiopia.

Methods

A total of 52 sampl

SUBMITTER: Ahmed F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11401441 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature