Policy brief for IMPACT2 project
Evaluating policies in Tanzania to improve malaria diagnosis and treatment
Category: Intervention Manuals
Sub Category: Intervention Manuals
Author: Catherine Goodman
Published Date: 09 July 2013
Description
Artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) is the recommended treatment for malaria in Tanzania and most otherendemic countries. Tanzania introduced the ACT artemether-lumefantrine (ALu) as first line drug in 2006.
However, access to ACT is poor and very often these drugs are not targeted to patients who are actually sufferingfrom malaria.
To tackle the problem, the government of mainland Tanzania has implemented twointerventions nationwide: rolling out malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in public health facilities, and introducingsubsidised ACTs through the AMFm mechanism.