Why haven’t Chloroquine and Fansidar been withdrawn from circulation despite parasites getting resistant?
These are multi-purpose medicines. For example, Fansidar is now being used for prevention of malaria in pregnancy while Chloroquine is used for treatment of arthritis. However, the procurement of these medicines on a large scale has been stopped and is only from local pharmaceutical industries like K.P.I. The government purchased coartem worth sh60b to last for five years. How much has been distributed and what is remaining? The 60b is for both malaria and AIDS/HIV, however, malaria has distributed more than one million doses out of what was allocated to malaria and arrangement are on the way to procure more. What effect has the new drug had on the community so far? It has reduced its prevalence. How has the indigenous knowledge and herbs been incorporated into research on anti-malarial drugs? ACTs are products of herbs that are locally grown in Uganda and research is on going at the National Chemotherapeutics laboratory in Wandegeya. How has climate change been incorporated into malar
