Quality of anti-malarial drugs provided by public and private healthcare providers in south-east Nigeria
Open Access
- 10 February 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Malaria Journal
- Vol. 8 (1), 22
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-22
Abstract
There is little existing knowledge about actual quality of drugs provided by different providers in Nigeria and in many sub-Saharan African countries. Such information is important for improving malaria treatment that will help in the development and implementation of actions designed to improve the quality of treatment. The objective of the study was to determine the quality of drugs used for the treatment of malaria in a broad spectrum of public and private healthcare providers.Keywords
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