Are patent medicine vendors effective agents in malaria control? Using lot quality assurance sampling to assess quality of practice in Jigawa, Nigeria.

Berendes, Sima, Adeyemi, Olusegun, Oladele, Edward Adekola, Oresanya, Olusola Bukola, Okoh, Festus and Valadez, Joseph ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6575-6592 (2012) 'Are patent medicine vendors effective agents in malaria control? Using lot quality assurance sampling to assess quality of practice in Jigawa, Nigeria.'. PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Issue 9, e44775.

Preview

Text Plos_ONE_7_9_e44775.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (222kB)

Abstract

There is urgent need to regularly monitor and improve the availability and quality of malaria treatment provided by medicine sellers in Nigeria; the irrational use of antimalarials in the ACT era revealed in this study bears a high risk of economic loss, death and development of drug resistance. LQAS has been shown to be a suitable method for monitoring malaria-related indicators among PMV, and should be applied in Nigeria and elsewhere to improve service delivery.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	QV Pharmacology > Anti-Inflammatory Agents. Anti-Infective Agents. Antineoplastic Agents > QV 256 Antimalarials QV Pharmacology > Drug Standardization. Pharmacognosy. Medicinal Plants > QV 771 Standardization and evaluation of drugs WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 110 Prevention and control of communicable diseases. Transmission of infectious diseases WA Public Health > WA 20.5 Research (General) WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 750 Malaria
Faculty: Department:	Groups (2002 - 2012) > International Health Group
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044775
Depositing User:	Helen Fletcher
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2012 15:40
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2019 11:29
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/3063

Statistics

View details

Actions (login required)

Edit Item