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ArticleHealth research policy and systems2013

Changing the malaria treatment protocol policy in Timor-Leste: an examination of context, process, and actors' involvement.

João S Martins, Anthony B Zwi, Karen Hobday, Fernando Bonaparte, Paul M Kelly

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Article in Health research policy and systems, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

João S MartinsGlobalHealth@UNSW and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. joaosmartins@hotmail.com
Anthony B Zwi
Karen Hobday
Fernando Bonaparte
Paul M Kelly
Universidade da Paz · TLUNSW Sydney · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2007 Timor-Leste, a malaria endemic country, changed its Malaria Treatment Protocol for uncomplicated falciparum malaria from sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to artemether-lumefantrine. The change in treatment policy was based on the rise in morbidity due to malaria and perception of increasing drug resistance. Despite a lack of nationally available evidence on drug resistance, the Ministry of Health decided to change the protocol. The policy process leading to this change was examined through a qualitative study on how the country developed its revised treatment protocol for malaria. This process involved many actors and was led by the Timor-Leste Ministry of Health and the WHO country office. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities identified during this period of treatment protocol change.

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AntimalarialsArtemether, Lumefantrine Drug CombinationArtemisininsClinical ProtocolsCooperative BehaviorDrug CombinationsDrug SubstitutionEthanolaminesFluorenesHealth Planning OrganizationsHealth PolicyHumansInterinstitutional RelationsMalaria, FalciparumPolicy MakingPyrimethamineAntimalarialsArtemether, Lumefantrine Drug CombinationArtemisininsDrug CombinationsEthanolaminesfanasil, pyrimethamine drug combinationFluorenesPyrimethamineSulfadoxine

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PMID23672371
PMCPMC3665480
OpenAlexW2107244327

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