How effective is the current combined therapy for the treatment of malaria?
The Artesuntae-Amodiaquine and Arthemether-Lumefantrine Therapy (ACT) contains very important drugs. The combination is extremely effective. For the time being, there is no resistance to the ACT base treatment. All studies have shown that the combination is effective more than 95 per cent. It is very unlikely for somebody to show resistance to the combination because the drugs stay much longer in the blood system and can kill remaining parasites which could possibly cause resistance to treatment. In terms of availability, the drugs are in the global market. But in several African countries there are several problems in terms of logistics. But some people present resistance to the current malaria treatment. There are several possibilities. It could be that these people are parasite-resistant to the treatment. Some people may think that when they have a fever, it means that they have malaria; meanwhile the causes of fever are many. If somebody does not have malaria as the cause of his fe
