Interested in implementing tafenoquine prescriptions for those screening G6PD normal for the treatment of #VivaxMalaria? ๐ค
The #HTA analysis we did showed a high likelihood of cost-effectiveness, leading to implementation in the Brazilian Public Health System.
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Researchers from OUCRU Indonesia, the Centre for Tropical Medicine, the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory and others has found that methaemoglobin levels during treatment for #VivaxMalaria could be used to predict population-level malaria treatment efficacy.
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High-Dose short course primaquine was safe and relatively well tolerated and reduced the risk of subsequent P vivax parasitaemia within 63 days by five fold in this RCT in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Ethiopian.
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