Scale-up of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy: Challenges and Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open Access
- 21 January 2014
- journal article
- policy forum
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 11 (1), e1001590
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001590
Abstract
Guido Bastiaens and colleagues describe barriers to achieving scale-up and appropriate use of rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapy for malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. Please see later in the article for the Editors' SummaryKeywords
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