Provision of subsidized malaria drugs in shops improves uptake

Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 04:00 in Health & Medicine

Reporting the findings of a cluster randomized trial carried out in rural Kenya, Beth Kangwana and colleagues find that provision of packs of the malaria therapy artemether-lumefantrine in shops at a subsidized price more than doubled the proportion of children with fever who received drugs promptly.

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