Background People who are prescribed self administered medications typically take only
about half their prescribed doses. Efforts to assist patients with adherence to medications …

For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured
billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the …

Background Current methods of improving medication adherence for health problems are
mostly complex, labour‐intensive, and not reliably effective. Medication'reminder packaging' …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization recommends parasitological
confirmation of malaria prior to treatment. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) represent …

Compliance, or adherence, as it relates to health care is the extent to which a person's
behavior coincides with medical or health advice. Medication compliance is critical for all …

Summary Background Many countries in Africa are considering a change to combination
treatment for falciparum malaria because of the increase in drug resistance. However, there …

Objective Liquid medicines are easy to swallow. However, they may have disadvantages,
such as a bad taste or refrigerated storage conditions. These disadvantages may be …

Malaria remains an important cause of death, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Self-
treatment with antimalarial drugs is a common practice that raises important issues for policy …

Background High levels of patient adherence to antimalarial treatment are important in
ensuring drug effectiveness. To achieve this goal, it is important to understand levels of …

Background Once malaria occurs, deaths can be prevented by prompt treatment with
relatively affordable and efficacious drugs. Yet this goal is elusive in Africa. The paradox of a …