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- Title
Changing the malaria treatment protocol policy in Timor-Leste: an examination of context, process, and actors' involvement.
- Authors
Martins, João S.; Zwi, Anthony B.; Hobday, Karen; Bonaparte, Fernando; Kelly, Paul M.
- Abstract
In 2007 Timor-Leste, a malaria endemic country, changed its Malaria Treatment Protocol for uncomplicated falciparum malaria from sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to artemether-lumefantrine. The change in treatment policy was based on the rise in morbidity due to malaria and perception of increasing drug resistance. Despite a lack of nationally available evidence on drug resistance, the Ministry of Health decided to change the protocol. The policy process leading to this change was examined through a qualitative study on how the country developed its revised treatment protocol for malaria. This process involved many actors and was led by the Timor-Leste Ministry of Health and the WHO country office. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities identified during this period of treatment protocol change.
- Subjects
TIMOR-Leste; MALARIA treatment; MEDICAL protocols; HEALTH policy; DRUG resistance in microorganisms
- Publication
Health Research Policy & Systems, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1478-4505
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1478-4505-11-16