“ACT Consortum” Investigates Millions of Lives At Stake From Substandard, Degraded And Fake Anti-Malarial Drugs

harparkash kaur1 ACT Consortum Investigates Millions of Lives At Stake From Substandard, Degraded And Fake Anti Malarial Drugs

Harparkash Kaur

The problem of artemisinin combination treatments (ACTs) in malaria which are ineffective because of poor storage, manufacture, or criminal counterfeiting was addressed in Nairobi at the 5th Multilateral Initiative On Malaria Pan African Malaria Conference by Harparkash Kaur of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine—a member of the recently-formed: ACT Consortium. After her talk she discussed her data and the efforts the consortium is making to resolve the issue with Peter Goodwin.

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