Sentences with phrase «artemisinin combination therapies»

At the next table the mother picks up a package of drugs called artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs), the best antimalarial treatment, together with antibiotics for any secondary infection and an analgesic to dull the pain and bring down the fever.

Others posted along the road promote rapid diagnostic tests for malaria and quality - assured artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs), part of a huge push to stop the use of fake or substandard malaria medicines.

In an effort to keep artemisinin resistance at bay, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs)-- uniting artemisinin derivatives with bygone antimalarial drugs — as the preferred front - line treatment.

These so - called artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs)-- there are six combinations — are designed to stave off resistance, in much the same way that combinations curb HIV's ability to develop resistance to any single drug.

Dihydroartemisinin - piperaquine is an artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) for malaria that combines potent, fast - acting artemisinin with a long - acting partner drug, piperaquine.

What's more, the team from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok writes in the October issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, this strain, resistant to an artemisinin combination therapy (ACT), is outcompeting others and becoming dominant in parts of what is known as the Greater Mekong subregion.

A disaster is looming in Cambodia and the rest of the Greater Mekong subregion: A deadly malaria parasite has become resistant to both drugs used in the so - called artemisinin combination therapy, raising the specter of untreatable malaria.

Artemisinin combination therapy (ACT)-- a combination of artemisinin with partner drugs — is the best available treatment for malaria and has been a key factor in reducing the number of malaria deaths.